The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the … influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods … families with piped water than for families without it. But health gains largely bypass children in poor families, particularly …

"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …