The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the … causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling … Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The …

Establishing a causal relationship between health and productivity is not straightforward. On one hand, as income grows …

Objectives – We examined the effect of world oil price fluctuations on household fuel use and child respiratory health … in Guatemala. Methods – We regressed measures of household fuel use and child respiratory health on the average world oil … world fuel prices affected household fuel use and, consequently, child health. Policies to help households tide over fuel …

. The resulting indoor air pollution can have severe health consequences, particularly for young children who spend … examine gas stove adoption, firewood consumption, and the resulting effects on the health of young children in Guatemala. Our … findings suggest that cooking with firewood has significant negative impacts on children's respiratory health. We also find …

This paper seeks to understand in which ways income inequality can act on children’ health in Guatemala. We postulate … that there are several transmission channels of income inequality on health and that the ethnic and/or rural origin of the … the relationship between income inequality and child health, and indicate that the most important transmission channels …