the economic health and social outcomes of the elderly. Our results found that the elderly in India are highly exposed to … negative impacts due to vulnerability in socio-economic and health spheres of life. Low labor force participation, lack of …, the fiscal challenges include increased income tax and insurance coverage for the elderly, while health challenges imply a …

, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across the country hired milk inspectors, who …-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …-treatment reductions in either infant or child mortality. …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

health outcomes using cross sectional and panel datasets of 156 countries from 1970 to 2015. This study uses three dimensions … expectancy and lowering infant mortality. Moreover, the results show that state capacity in terms of "ability" has the largest … impact on health outcomes while in terms of "position" its effect is limited. Findings of the study are robust to different …

mortality and self-rated health indicators while mental health is measured using stress index and addition of smoking in both …This study contributes to the health literature by decomposing health outcomes into three dimensions that are physical … health, mental health and well-being of individuals. Where physical health is measured using life expectancy, infant …

government health centers located in constituencies with low political competition and high inequality are disfavored, indicating … that the effect on mortality operates via changes in public provision. Finally, we show that the same mechanisms are at …