A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal
period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but …

In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our
understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First …

We examine the determinants of the consequences of COVID-19 on employment and wages
in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we investigate whether the economic …

Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and
adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

This research explores the association of public health expenditure with economic
performance across the United States. Healthcare expenditure can result in better provision …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

In this article, we present our viewpoint on COVID-19 pandemic and one of the humanitarian
challenges it will likely pose: food insecurity. We begin our article by presenting the status of …

Executive summary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development
Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a …

内容提要: 本文基于中国8 个省份, 1320 个农户, 跨度15 年的微观面板数据,
使用非参数回归方法对影响农户收入差距的原因加以分析, 利用广义差分方法去除农户异质性 …