Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why …

In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and health. A large number of … studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is associated with better health. While previous work has … with better health differ depending on the level of development. We illustrate this approach by comparing the effects of …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about … this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education 'gradient' is … found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect of …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …