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 …

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and …

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

sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …