areas. Many papers in the public health literature show associations between access to clean water sources or improved …

A growing body of research argues that early adverse experiences have lasting effects not only on later health outcomes … children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper …

-registration on access to health care. Using data from the Dominican Republic, this paper is the first to shed light on the causal …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

developed western world by going through three developmental stages sequentially; namely, a proto-industrialization in the rural …, economies stuck in the low-income trap or middle-income trap did not follow the above sequential stages of industrialization …. For example, many Eastern European and Latin American countries after WWII jumped to the stage of heavy industrialization …