Inappropriate diets have been found to cause long-term health problems in most industrial and post-industrial countries …

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 … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes.The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products issomewhat more restrictive than in …

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

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 …

health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …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 …