What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: Adult wages and early-life mortality in India

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-16

  Lawson, Nicholas ^a   Spears, Dean ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Disease environment; Early life health; India; Infant mortality; Wages

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; INVESTMENT; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962009901     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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