We test the causal role of social capital, as measured by self-reported trust, in determining access to basic health … facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. To skirt reverse-causality problems between social capital and basic health, we rely on … robustness check, we also use a different database regarding a different health issue, namely access to clean water. We find that …

We consider the covariance structure of health. Agents report their health status on the basis of a latent health stock … account for 5% to 10% of the variation in health. At age 60, this percentage rise to between 60% and 80%. We document a …

India is ranked fairly high amongst the countries in terms of out of pocket expenditure by its citizens on health and … National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) too failed to bring about any significant improvement in health indicators. This paper …

This note examines whether subjective general health in Europe has changed since the onset of the economic crisis …. Subjective general health for Ireland, Spain and Portugal is compared before and after the onset of the recession. Two other … or very good health is also plotted against the change in the unemployment rate over the period 2007-2012. Subjective …

inequality in total consumption expenditure by different sources (food, education, health, durable goods and other items …, health and durable goods, which are much more unequally distributed, have become more important as a share of total … expenditure on food items, inequality contributions of expenditures on all other heads including education, health, durable goods …

We investigate the consequences of imperfect data privacy on information acquisition of personal health data. In a game … their personal health status to convince a decision maker to interact. We contrast three institutional settings: automatic …

We investigate the consequences of imperfect data privacy on information acquisition of personal health data. In a game … their personal health status to convince a decision maker to interact. We contrast three institutional settings: automatic …