This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …

Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …

Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …

development effort. We find that patent protection in high income countries is associated with increases in research and … development (R&D) effort; in other words, patent protection works in high-income countries to induce R&D. However, the … "neglected" diseases that are concentrated in low-income countries. …

cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in … particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

we argue that health improvements do not have to wait for national income to rise. Many countries have experienced large … health gains without prior income gains, and in countries not affected by HIV/AIDS the last 40 years have largely been a …Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of …

going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life … national income and life expectancy will not persist, particularly over the ranges of income of primary interest to the Human … existing “puzzles” come from using either very short time-horizons or very small moves in income per capita when the Preston …