Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we analyze the health gap between married and unmarried … marriage health gap is similar for men and women. If we allow for unobserved heterogeneity in innate health (permanent and age …-dependent), potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears below age …

of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the …, full vertical integration and complete exclusion of smallholder suppliers. We analyze and quantify income and poverty …

-agricultural income in the reduction of poverty. …

remaining distortions to worldmerchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing countries … of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point tolarger reductions in poverty, especially if only …

the relationship between economic growth and poverty in Alagoas, all data was obtained from Atlas of Human Development for … to combat to the poverty qualitative, in others words, if that growth can be considered pro-poor. For that, we estimate … the elasticity of the poverty with the economic growth for the microregions from Alagoas. Our findings indicate a negative …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …