Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "health"

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    • Early-Life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India 

      Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael R.; Singhal, Monica; Vogl, Tom (American Economic Association, 2010)
      We examine the effects of exposure to malaria in early childhood on educational attainment and economic status in adulthood by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication ...

    • The effects of Obama's political success on the self-rated health of Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites 

      Malat, Jennifer; Timberlake, Jeffrey; Williams, David (International Society on Hypertention in Blacks, 2011)
      Stress in the social environment can affect individual health. Election of the first Black President of the United States provides an opportunity to assess how a positive change in the macro-political climate impacts the ...

    • The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps 

      Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice (2010)
      This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and ...

    • Role of health in predicting moves to poor neighborhoods among Hurricane Katrina survivors 

      Arcaya, Mariana C; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata; Rhodes, Jean E.; Waters, Mary C. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
      In contrast to a large literature investigating neighborhood effects on health, few studies have examined health as a determinant of neighborhood attainment. However, the sorting of individuals into neighborhoods by health ...

    • Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data 

      Chetty, Nadarajan; Finkelstein, Amy Nadya (Elsevier, 2013)
      We survey the literature on social insurance, focusing on recent work that has connected theory to evidence to make quantitative statements about welfare and optimal policy. Our review contains two parts. We first discuss ...

    • Understanding Differences in Health Behaviors by Education 

      Cutler, David M.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana (Elsevier, 2010)
      Using a variety of data sets from two countries, we examine possible explanations for the relationship between education and health behaviors, known as the education gradient. We show that income, health insurance, and ...