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 …

retirement pensions, is followed by a causal empirical analysis using a panel data set (Mexican Health and Aging Study, MHAS) of …) reduces participation. A better health raises male participation rates, while the health effect is absent for women. The … opposite effect, from labor force participation on health status, is negligible for both genders. Access to health services …

based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

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 is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of … health across countries is converging, and which countries are outliers to this global trend. We argue that conceptually … health measures should account for illness as well as mortality. However, in practice we show that population mortality and …

elements of human development, longevity and knowledge - democracy has a positive effect on indicators of education and health …