health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health …

forces, which govern the stocks of frail and health persons in a population, interact with economic forces, which govern the …

paper uses a new source of longitudinal data on the health, labour force participation and retirement decisions of older New … influenced by their health status (both mental and physical), in addition to a wide range of economic, social and demographic … heterogeneity. We find a range of factors to be associated with the decision to retire, notably health status, marital status and …

role for disability income policies likes wage subsidies to encourage the employment of (older) workers with health …This paper adds to the empirical literature on health as an important determinant of employment at older ages by … exploring the role in the health-employment nexus of the wage rates of 50 to 64-year-old workers. To do so, we use individual …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the ¯rst three waves of …