the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well … beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both in terms of energy level and working time. Focusing on the … Grossman model, the author describes three additional pathways through which health can affect productivity at an aggregate …

suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …

The interest of this study is the tradeoff between nutrition and taste in consumer food choice. We examine choice … through ignorance. This makes the choice between taste and nutrition more apparent. We use annual expenditure data reported by … nutrition, but primarily for cereal and bread: beverages are little affected. Older households tend to make healthier choices …

, health, nutrition and education are explicitly simultaneous. We find a unidirectional relationship that improving basic … their situation. Channelling resources towards improving health, education and nutrition could bring dramatic economic … welfare contributes strongly to labour productivity change, but a clear reverse causation only from growth to nutrition. There …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …