health, does not always yield the needed outcome of promoting economic growth. Government education expenditure stimulates … economic growth in SSA, albeit the effect is statistically insignificant, whereas government health expenditure has a growth … government health spending. Research implications/limitations - The findings imply that strengthening good governance in SSA is …

In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …