The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

Extremadura growth trajectory. Extremadura is a poor region in the European context that between 2008 and 2014 diverged from the …

ambiguous. For the average person, the monetary benefits of plastic surgery, medical treatments to increase height, and …

characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative …

health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …. In particular, to estimate the relationship between malaria exposure and height, I rely on the "fetal origins hypothesis …", that is I hypothesize that exposure to malaria in utero or during childhood has persistent effects on health. Periods under …