examine the relationship between National Health Insurance and maternal healthcare utilisation across three main wealth … compared to women in the middle wealth quintile (5%, CI = 2.12–4.76) and rich women (2%, CI = 1.14–4.14). Similarly, poor women … who owned the NHIS are 14% (CI = 1.42–2.13) likely to deliver in health facility than women in the middle and rich wealth …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of wealth on health in South Africa using the National Income Dynamics Study … (NIDS). We estimate a two-stage probit model with inheritance as an instrumental variable for wealth. We find no significant … effect of wealth on health at the individual level, consistent with most of the results found for developed countries …

This paper empirically evaluates the impact of health on wealth. Using the frailty index as a measure of health and … carefully accounting for the dynamic relationship between frailty and wealth, I find that suffering one more health deficit … definitions of wealth. Using financial net worth as a definition of wealth, I find that the average impact of frailty on wealth is …

paper builds on a growing literature that seeks to better document how and why wealth and SES are related. Specifically, we …-differences identification strategy. We estimate a parameter for acute illnesses (which should have a causal effect on wave-to-wave wealth … should be less causally related to wealth differences year-to-year). Additionally, we interact these health indicators with …

assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks … resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine the effect of wealth on use of home health, unpaid help and nursing home … not affected by the housing wealth changes. The findings suggest that a wealth shock exerts a positive and significant …

, accelerating the fall in wealth. Whereas standard explanations emphasize inevitable aging processes, we propose a com- plementary … live, individuals optimally deplete their health and wealth towards levels associated with high death risk and indifference …