This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

Health evidence confirms that the burden of disease associated with inadequate Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …

health status. We identify the extent to which shared consumption of some goods by elderly married couples reduces their …

This research explores the impact of education on health in relation to an individual's country of birth using the US … National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for 2001–2004. We analyze health equations that relate health to education … and other variables. Health is measured in terms of self-reported overall health, an index of biological risk factors, and …