countries using the World Health Survey. We find that people with disabilities have lower employment rates than persons without …

concern of the paper is the impact of aid on the wealth, education and health of the poorest. Results indicate that while aid … improves the wellbeing of the poorest groups, it is the richer groups that benefit the most.foreign aid, poverty, well …-being, growth, wealth, health, education, mortality, fertility. …

Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … employment and higher unemployment rates, worse living conditions, and higher poverty rates. This study aims to contribute to the … and methods across countries, this study presents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of working-age persons with …

-being as well as the effect of objective life circumstances using the WHO Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Our …

The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over … different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … development is intertwined with the major aging trends around the world. This discussion includes the origins of the HRS model … the world's ever-changing socioeconomic and institutional landscape, we identify several promising avenues for new …

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth … in the first 1000 days of life can falter depending on health endowments and investments. We investigate growth faltering … parental health investments, economic recouping, and foreign aid, which facilitate subsequent catch-up growth of children. We …