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treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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, household income, and household wealth - and the health outcomes investigated span multiple dimensions as well. International …-country differences in levels of income equality and mortality as among the most compelling evidence that unequal societies have negative … top. This social health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of SES. While …
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which measures of SES are used (income, wealth, or education), the evidence that this association is large is abundant …
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In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...
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aspects such as income or wealth or nonfinancial dimensions like education? Finally, is there a life course component to the …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a ’synthetic cohort’ dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …
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On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …
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British children who were all potentially exposed in the womb. Epidemic effects are identified using geographic variation in a …
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