policies consume more and enjoy slightly better physical health status, they report more severe depression symptoms. In this … paper, we present a more complete picture of the difference in mental health among residents in rural and urban areas … mental health status among the elderly Chinese …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

To improve Native American health outcomes, Congress should increase funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS) to … authority for the IHS, which it has already done for the Veterans Health Administration. However, increasing IHS funding must be … accompanied by other institutional reforms to address the widespread management problems in the IHS, otherwise health outcomes are …

negative health consequences beyond birth outcomes; we document large increases in children's hospitalisations and medical …

This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills …

Barker’s fetal origins hypothesis suggests a strong relationship between in utero conditions, health and overall child … child health in rural India. We find that drought experienced in utero has detrimental effects on nutritional status of … vulnerability to negative rainfall shock may result into improved health and higher human capital accumulation in rain …