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 explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …

In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …

The present paper examines the access to health care with reference to availability of manpower in the health care … sector in Andhra Pradesh. Also the paper provides the alternative estimations of workforce in health care sector based on the …

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. …

Objective Better measurement of the health and cognitive benefits of breastfeeding by using sibling comparisons to … reduce sample selection bias. Data We use data on the breastfeeding history, physical and emotional health, academic … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The sample includes 2,734 sibling pairs. Study Design We examine the relationship between …