southern Italy, between 1908-1928 and 1960-1970. The mean height of immigrant men was 165.5 cm: they were taller than …

Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these … gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population … health outcomes, but may also be prone to "elite capture" leading to divergence. This paper studies the case of penicillin …

Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these … gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population … health outcomes, but may also be prone to “elite capture” leading to divergence. This paper studies the case of penicillin …

rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow …This paper studies the relationship between medical compliance and health outcomes - hospitalization and mortality … individual patients through all their accesses to public health care services until they either die or leave the local health …

In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy …

The aim of this paper is to highlight the determinants of female employment in Italy in recent years, when education … investigate what shape the perception of their health status using the same variables. We find significant results also for … explaining the health status of women through the (multiple) family burdens and the chance to have a job …