parents are of poor health, unable to invest much in reducing mortality risk and improving their human capital. Consequently …Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health … status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce health human …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health … returns to schooling remain substantial even after controlling for genetic confounds, with an average of 8-11% higher hourly …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within …

This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …

introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …

Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and … improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty …

period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance … International Student Assessment test scores among 15-year-olds. Public spending on family support, housing, and education are also …