This dissertation aims to quantify the effect of the burden of a disease on economic performance in a cross-section of countries and its main goal is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not …
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Studies that have attempted to examine the impact of early childhood malnutrition on acute illness have failed to adequately establish the causal link from malnutrition to acute illness. The empirical challenge arises because household behavioral decisions that influence investm…
Often we are interested in examining whether the time until a particular event occurs depends on explanatory variables. For example, does an individual's survival time from cancer depend on the treatment that is given? Studies involving event times, such as death time due to can…
Female education is believed to affect health through its influence on health behaviors. However, the effect of female education may be estimated incorrectly when female education is correlated with unobserved variables at the community and individual levels that also influence …
This Dissertation consists of three essays on health, labor, and public economics. The first essay investigates how gender-specific cancers affect the labor market outcomes of cancer survivors. Using a theoretical construct of labor supply and health capital, this essay exploits…