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 …

endogenous fertility. It is shown that development traps due to under investments in health can never appear when fertility is an …

government invests in public health (Chakraborty, 2004) and the individual survival probability at the end of youth depends on … health expenditure through an S-shaped longevity function. This may give rise to four steady states and, hence, development …

of weak altruism towards children. The government invests in public health, and an individual’s survival probability at … the end of youth depends on health expenditure. We show that multiple development regimes can exist. However, poverty or …, (ii) the government issues an amount of public debt. Interestingly, there also exists a couple child tax-health tax that …

Background: To investigate the association between public health spending and probability of infant and child death in … India. Methods: We used data from the three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in India during 1992 …-93, 1998-99 and 2005-06 to investigate the association between public health spending and probability of infant and child death …

height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity … behavior on obese women to market entrance; besides, a good performance of women height as an unobserved approximation of …

The paper examines the role of physical capacity in the determination of the height premium by using the “Health 2000 … muscle mass from medical examinations. Our results show that the height premium does not vary according to the physical …

that height is a good proxy of the material living conditions of different populations. Data indicate that the difference … clear: the social environment has a significant impact on the average height of populations. …