distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and … level data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 1994 to 2012, we scrutinize the influence of … transitional processes, particularly economic transitions on nutritional and health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that the …

In this paper we explore political-economic determinants of health. We draw upon the unique natural experiment of post …-communist transitions to show the effect on health (measured as life expectancy and cause-specific mortality) of the interaction between … economic institutions exert cumulative positive impact upon health (even if their separate effects are negative or …

electricity suppliers. Outages may have an adverse impact on the household's welfare including the health of household members … investigates whether there is a relationship between outages and the health of children. Specifically, I study the differences in …

-religious families in Russia. The health indicators analyzed include the subjective health status and anthropometric outcomes. The …This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …

industrialization in those countries. -- Soviet Union ; Russia ; health ; standard of living …