This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in … Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a … others used in the health field are noted. We conclude that more empirical data, a full labor market analysis, and the use of …

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 …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries … poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to health production functions. The …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …