period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance … International Student Assessment test scores among 15-year-olds. Public spending on family support, housing, and education are also …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …

parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents …We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments …