Lordan, Grace; Soto, Eliana Jimenez; Brown, Richard P. C.; … - 2011
including area and district hospital effects, physical geography effects are unpacked from income effects. We measure SES, as … permanent income which is constructed using principal components analysis. An alternative specification considers transitory … household income. We find that a 1% increase in wealth (our measure of permanent income) would lead to a 15% decrease in the …