"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...

While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...

This study applies broad-based measures of household consumption expenditure and a utility proxy to estimate the effect of health state on the marginal utility of consumption using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey’s panel data covering 1994-2019. To do so, I estimate how an observed...