The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status … alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects … immortal-time bias in favor of academicians and 2) the endogenous relationship between health and social status, we find that …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and …

There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …