There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One …, and family type, we study outcomes spanning test scores, mental health, physical health, and deprivation measures. The … the existing literature. However, we also find that several measures of both child and maternal mental health and well …

not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been … income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … that a middle aged person is in poor or fair health by about 15 percentage points in the U.S., compared to less than 8 …

preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …