correlation, attributable almost equally to homogamy in relation to early health and common factors operating within marriage. … correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long …-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and estimate a latent variable model of the health states of marital …

health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … “unused capacity” in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status and … disability take up. We find that institutional differences between countries explain much of the cross-national differences in …

-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus … year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 … post-period average ATT rose. The eradication of polio saved a significant number of lives and brought measurable health …

-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus … year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 … post-period average ATT rose. The eradication of polio saved a significant number of lives and brought measurable health …

relationship with childhood disability. Existing quantitative studies tend to cover particular areas and ages, and lack extensive … covariates that vary with disability. Additionally, disability definitions differ across studies. This paper enhances our … association of different disability measures with the probability of being bullied at ages seven and 15, controlling for relevant …

that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and … spent in the host country, however, and immigrants' health status converges toward (or below) that of native residents. …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course … approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …

households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …