Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2006
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its … distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the incidence of asthma might also … history of asthma, poor child health at birth, maternal age at child's birth and local deprivation. We find that each of these …