Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … impacts of major shocks on child health and human capital in Indonesia is nothing short of stunning … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical …

The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

program led to an increase in education among individuals who were young enough to attend primary school after 1974, but not …

variation to provide initial estimates of how this eligibility affects the health status of non-Medicaid-eligible SSDI …-reported health of this population, with suggestive evidence that this improvement is stronger as underwriting restrictions increase … and among SSDI beneficiaries with mental health conditions. The estimated effect is highly robust to alternative scaling …

key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … regulation to provide benefits through several different channels, including improved health or productivity. The model shows … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …

finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … for health effects by representing environmental quality and leisure as substitutes in utility. The present paper employs … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …

Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model featuring health production, we quantify the relative … contribution of price distortions in the health market, TFP and other health risks in explaining cross-country differences in … health expenditure (as a share of GDP) and health status. Estimated parameters reveal a substantial price wedge that explains …

consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …