for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

's health status, and in some cases, mother's literacy. The comparisons are robust to the choice of poverty line, poverty … dimension of expenditures and assets, improvement in children's height-for-age z-scores is less certain for the 1995-2000 period …

on mortality, fertility, health or education. …, earnings, and consumption. Grants had lasting impacts on assets, skilled work, and possibly child health, but had little effect …

disease environment (malaria prevalence, water pollution, HIV rates) and a policy neglect (underprovision of health care …

indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of …

Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable …

assets are important correlates of childhood mortality. The results further show that health care services are crucial for …

registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and …-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …