Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …

censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The … improvement in the socio-economic indicators i.e. education and health services; relaxation of traditional controls i ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …

preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity …

, health status, region of residence and having been arrested, account for the majority of labour market success (or lack of it …

Previous literature has examined the link between overt marital conflict and physical health and found that negative … interactions in marriage may lead to poorer health. Moreover, recent studies have identified relational aggression as a type of … covert marital conflict. However, none have tested for effects of relational aggression on physical health in marriage. The …