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 …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show …

Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …

Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …

the fixed effect partial adjustment model and regresses the human development index on health and education spending …. Results show that while health spending is significant in explaining human development in these countries both in the short … of the human capital in these countries, increased funding of the health sector is necessary. Furthermore, ensuring …

within-siblings differences to estimate the effects of Christian faith on three health outcome variables by applying fixed … significant positive health effects of religiosity of Christianity. The results also support the three explanatory mechanisms of … religion on health proposed by Son and Wilson (2011): 1) behaviors and lifestyles, 2) social networks and 3) social support and …