We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care …

This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in … others used in the health field are noted. We conclude that more empirical data, a full labor market analysis, and the use of …

inequality in many low income countries, and thus schooling and health are analyzed here as indicators of productivity and … foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health … schooling and health, and delay the equalization of these human capital investments between men and women. Liberalization of …

longitudinal data from both countries to examine whether immigrants differ in their use of health services than native born … individuals on arrival and over time. While immigrants to Germany, but not the UK, are more likely to self-report poor health than …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating …-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …