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 …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: 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 … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

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 …

worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show … 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 …