This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

increases, trade growth and shifting trade patterns will have pervasive effects on income distribution in Vietnam. In this paper …, we use a newly estimated Vietnam social accounting matrix to elucidate the links between trade and income in the country …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … with a low level of income inequality. Moreover, while income inequality shows a decline between 2000 and 2009, the World … groups. This paper utilizes a range of recently developed statistical techniques to assess the true value of income …

increases, trade growth and shifting trade patterns will have pervasive effects on income distribution in Vietnam. In this paper …, we use a newly estimated Vietnam social accounting matrix to elucidate the links between trade and income in the country …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …

are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … relationship remains statistically significant after controlling for gender, age, marital status, income and other variables … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …