fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …

Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub … voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative initiatives are needed. Bundling health insurance to microcredit is an option that we … compulsory micro-health insurance scheme integrated into a micro-loan system for informal micro-entrepreneurs in Ouagadougou …

This paper explores univariate health inequality in India using a representative sample of pre-school age children. I … decomposing health inequality, while providing some interesting empirical findings on health inequality. The results suggest that … evolution of the nutrition poverty index over time in India. However, I also observe that the level of stunted growth would be …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …