This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand …This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …