fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …

refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … 14; revisions to several previous data points, reflecting the analysis of new surveys (or adaptations thereof); and …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

younger than age five years, using unique cross-sectional data from the 2012-13 Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey … the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …

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

-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … 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 … the prevalence of three adult health risk factors - obesity, smoking, and heavy drinking - as an additional proxy for … latent health status. This extension of the Human Capital Index could also be useful for assessing the state of human capital …

reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …