This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

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 … capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments …

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during … early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and … find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early …