This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm … shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the …

I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …

of within-community differences in victimization risk on changes in self-rated and mental health. My results from fixed … effects and instrumental variable estimations point towards substantial negative health effects of actual victimization, which …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …

disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms …This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in … India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ …

disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms …This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in … India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ …