height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude …Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude …Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health-related care and …

wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by …, alternative mappings of health status, such as height, on community health services, parent socioeconomic characteristics, and … components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on …

wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by …, alternative mappings of health status, such as height, on community health services, parent socioeconomic characteristics, and … components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Brazil suggests that the health human capital effect on …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships … between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude …Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital … endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model … highlights similarities and differences in these two important components of human capital. Health is distinct from skill: health …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …