health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our …This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members …

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … impacts of Indonesia's cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14 …,000 households in 360 sub-districts across Indonesia, taking advantage of the fact that treatment and control locations remained …

impacts of major shocks on child health and human capital in Indonesia is nothing short of stunning …Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in … to be more efficient spending of block grants, and led to an increase in labor from health providers, who are partially …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health …'s health is related to his or her status within a reference group as measured by income relative to the group mean. Income …