implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman%u2019s mate and have generally …

infected with HIV. To identify causal effects, we assume that variation in women's immune system health when HAART was … health is objectively measured using white blood cell (CD4) counts. Because the women in our sample were informed of their CD … introduction reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. To explain our estimates, we treat health as a form of human capital …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …

played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden that affects …

health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the extent to which the Supplemental Program for Women … estimate the impact of the program on infant health. We find that the implementation of WIC lead to an increase in average …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …