Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

and household income. We find high levels of physical inactivity. Further, both education and household income are … high and low income households is already evident in early adult life and increases up until about age 85. Overall, these …