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 trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …

affect access to health, to education and to economic opportunities. The emphasis is placed on South Mediterranean countries …. The results attained and the evidence mobilized consistently show the interdependencies of health, education and poverty … and the potential gains that can be transversally achieved with the promotion of the roles of women and children. …

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 …

link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z …

comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

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 …