Between 1988 and 1997, the percentage of children in New York and New Jersey receiving public health insurance … changes has been a marked rise in the share of Second District children without any health insurance. …

This paper considers whether ethnicity conditions the return and access to health capital in China. Given that the wage …-height relationship reflects the labor market earnings returns to childhood and adolescent health capital, differences in the labor market … returns to height by ethnicity reflect ethnic differences in access to health capital during childhood and adolescence. We …

deviations from their physiological optimal ones with ageing, craving, digestive discomfort, health-dependent budget, and non …

existence of unintentional bequests makes the health tax rate to play a prominent role in determining the stability conditions …). We show that poverty traps due to scarce public investments in health can exist. However, and most important, the … can occur depending on the size of the public health system. …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …