This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income … inequality in predicting life satisfaction. The analysis finds that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on … life satisfaction. This result is robust to changes in regressors and estimation choices and also persists across different …

on human health. Air pollution emitted from various activities in the energy supply chains is the main risk factor to … human health, along with accidental and occupational risk exposures. Estimates of premature deaths are over four million per … nexus between the energy supply chain and human health. Yet, the negative implications for human health from energy use …

This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary … World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic … and health system indicators. Large differences emerge across countries in per capita out-of-pocket expenditures in 2011 …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … and gender composition of migrants, whether or not young migrants move alone or with a parent or spouse, their … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits …

impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their … demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused almost … exclusively on sexual and gender-based violence. The authors show that a far wider set of gender issues must be considered to …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to … paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's population whose native language is a gender language. At the … cross-country level, this paper documents a robust negative relationship between the prevalence of gender languages and …

reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …