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 …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

of contemporary markets for knowledge, flagging the existence of what we call derivative markets for knowledge. Patents … contemporary markets for knowledge. …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators …, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium Development Goals, influence such decisions. The analysis reveals that … health indicators are important determinants of the selection and allocation process for health assistance but to a different …