scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of … developing-country cities have examined these issues. This paper investigates whether in these cities, the health of women and … some 85 Demographic and Health surveys, and modelling living standards using factor-analytic MIMIC methods, we find, first …

concern of the paper is the impact of aid on the wealth, education and health of the poorest. Results indicate that while aid …

Development Goals (in particular measures of income, health, and education status) others act as more intermediate indicators of …

receipt of human recognition, its contribution to utility, its effects on health and labor supply, and the role it plays in … from the model are that human recognition has a positive, causal relationship with utility, health outcomes, and labor …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …