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 …

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 …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …

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 …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …

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 …

-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …

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 …