between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …

documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in … variation, I estimate long-run health impacts of drought exposure among Africans confined to homelands during apartheid. Drought … long-run effects on health human capital, migrant networks in poor economies provide one channel through which families …

The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status …, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult …, given the simultaneous determination of health and income. In this paper, we quantify the impact on health status of a large …

health and the market economy from which damage to these ecosystems stems as an integrated system. We find that willingness …