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13417: Misaligned Stakeholders and Health System Underperformance

David Bloom, Daniel M. Cadarette, Jonty Roland and Jessica Sullivan

13316: Looking Back on the Lessons of “Higher Education and Developing Countries: Peril and Promise”—Perspectives on China and India

David Bloom, Philip G. Altbach and Henry Rosovsky

13216: Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, S.K. Mohanty and David Bloom

13016: The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future

David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca

12916: Africa’s Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

David Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

12816: The Effect of Schooling on Teenage Fertility: Evidence from the 1994 Education Reform in Ethiopia

Elina Pradhan and David Canning

12715: Prospects for Economic Growth in Nigeria: A Demographic Perspective

David Bloom, Jocelyn Finlay, Salal Humair, Andrew Mason, Olanrewaju Olaniyan and Adedoyin Soyibo

12615: The contribution of female health to economic development

David Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

12515: Vaccination and All Cause Child Mortality 1985-2011: Global Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Mark McGovern and David Canning

12415: Distal Determinants of Fertility decline: Evidence from 640 Indian Districts

S.K. Mohanty, Günther Fink, Rajesh K. Chauhan and David Canning

12315: HIV/AIDS Perspective Paper

Pascal Geldsetzer, David Bloom, Salal Humair and Till Bärnighausen

12215: Demographic Influences on U.S. Economic Prospects

David Bloom and J.W. Lorsch

12115: Education, Gender, and State-Level Gradients in the Health of Older Indians: Evidence from Biomarker Data

Jinkook Lee, Mark McGovern, David Bloom, P. Arokiasamy, Arun Risbud, Jennifer O’Brien, Varsha Kale and Perry Hu

12014: Returns to Education in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from the Living Standards and Measurement Surveys

Günther Fink and Evan Peet

11914: Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Cuong Nguyen and Agnès Soucat

11814: Comparing the Relationship Between Stature and Later Life Health in Six Low and Middle Income Countries

Mark McGovern

11714: The Economics of Fertility Timing: An Euler Equation Approach

David Canning, Declan French and Michael Moore

11614: Children of Drought: Rainfall Shocks and Early Child Health in Rural India

Santosh Kumar, Ramona Molitor and Sebastian Vollmer

11514: Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef and Cuong Nguyen

11414: Longitudinal Aging Study in India: Biomarker Data Documentation

David Bloom, Perry Hu, P. Arokiasamy, Arun Risbud, T.V. Sekher, S.K. Mohanty, Varsha Kale, Jennifer O’Brien and Jinkook Lee

11314: A Flow Measure of Missing Women by Age and Disease

Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer

11214: Physical Stature Decline and the Health Status of the Elderly Population in England

Alan Fernihough and Mark McGovern

11013: A demographic dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa: Source, Magnitude, and Realization

David Bloom, Salal Humair, Larry Rosenberg, Jp Sevilla and James Trussell

10913: HIV Does Matter for Fertility: Human Capital, Mortality and Family Size

Günther Fink and Sebastian Linnemayr

10713: The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

David Bloom, Elizabeth Cafiero, Mark McGovern, Klaus Prettner, Anderson Stanciole, Jonathan Weiss, Samuel Bakkila and Larry Rosenberg

10613: The Effect of a Constitutional Right to Health on Population Health in 157 Countries, 1970–2007: the Role of Democratic Governance

Hiroaki Matsuura

10513: Do Fertility Transitions Influence Infant Mortality Declines? Evidence from Early Modern Germany

Alan Fernihough and Mark McGovern

10413: The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health

David Bloom and Günther Fink

10313: Global health governance and tropical diseases

Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom and Salal Humair

10213: The design and implementation of public pension systems in developing countries: Issues and options

David Bloom and Roddy McKinnon

10113: Using Interviewer Random Effects to Calculate Unbiased HIV Prevalence Estimates in the Presence of Non-Response: a Bayesian Approach

Mark McGovern, Till Bärnighausen, Joshua Salomon and David Canning

10013: The Emergence of Three Human Development Clubs

Sebastian Vollmer, Hajo Holzmann, Florian Ketterer, Stephan Klasen and David Canning

9913: Urban Mortality Transitions: The Role of Slums

Günther Fink, Isabel Günther and Kenneth Hill

9813: Ageing and Productivity: Introduction

David Bloom and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

9712: Estimating Household Permanent Income from Ownership of Physical Assets

June Po, Jocelyn Finlay, Mark Brewster and David Canning

9612: Reproductive Health Laws Around the World

Jocelyn Finlay, David Canning and June Po

9512: Still Unequal At Birth: Birth Weight, Socioeconomic Status,And Outcomes at Age 9

Mark McGovern

9412: A Practical Introduction to Stata

Mark McGovern

9312: Microeconomic Foundations of the Demographic Dividend

David Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink and Jocelyn Finlay

9212: Youth in the Balance

David Bloom

9112: Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement:does population aging necessarily undermine economic prosperity?

Klaus Prettner and David Canning

9012: Public education, technological change and economic prosperity: semi-endogenous growth revisited

Klaus Prettner

8912: Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise?

John Beard, Simon Biggs, David Bloom, Linda Fried, Paul Hogan, Alexandre Kalache and S. Olshansky

8812: The Association of Maternal Age with Infant Mortality, Child Anthropometric Failure, Diarrhoea, and Anaemia for First Births: Evidence from 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Jocelyn Finlay, Emre Özaltin and David Canning

8712: The Global Economic Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases

David Bloom, Elizabeth Cafiero, Eva Jané-Llopis, Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, Lakshmi Bloom, Sana Fathima, Andrea Feigl, Tom Gaziano, Ali Hamandi, Mona Mowafi, Danny O’Farrell, Emre Ozaltin, Ankur Pandya, Klaus Prettner, Larry Rosenberg, Benjamin Seligman, Adam Stein, Cara Weinstein and Jonathan Weiss

8612: Health systems and HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: Matching intervention and program evaluation strategies

Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom and Salal Humair

8512: Strengthening Health Systems: Perspectives for economic evaluation

Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom and Salal Humair

8412: Declining fertility and economic well-being: do education and health ride to the rescue?

Klaus Prettner, David Bloom and Holger Strulik

8311: Social Protection of Older People

David Bloom, Emmanuel Jimenez and Larry Rosenberg

8211: Longitudinal Aging Study in India: Vision, Design, Implementation, and Some Early Results

P. Arokiasamy, David Bloom, Jinkook Lee, Kevin Feeney and Marija Ozolins