ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on demographics, on economic relationships and on some aspects of health, nutrition and food consumption. It reviews a lot of surveys by health economists and others about health in low-income countries. The chapter discusses four data sets: Indonesia, Ivory Coast, India, and the United States. The green revolution in India provides, in some sense, a natural experiment because it occurred only in selected areas of the country. It therefore becomes possible to compare changes in various things in those areas with the changes that occurred in other areas of India. Proximity to health clinics reduced infant mortality, but it reduced it significantly less for well-educated mothers. Now this is a finding that's intriguingly similar to what's found for the effect of extension on agricultural development. It is often found that the effects of extension on agricultural development is much smaller for the well-educated farmers.
