sector, their model incorporates two key aspects of knowledge: technology and human capital. Steady-state equilibrium …

The National School for Professional Technology Education (CONALEP) is Mexico's largest and oldest technical education …

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the …

specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical … associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …

The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is … a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health … vaccines to ameliorate infectious diseases bedeviling the developing nations. But if the objective is better health outcomes at …

of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper the authors help fill this gap by … investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls …