Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are … correlated with changes in health status. While health transitions are correlated with changes in food deprivation status, there … is little evidence that change in food deprivation status leads changes in health status but some evidence that change in …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control … imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer downsizing increases the probability that older workers rate their health … health by increasing job insecurity and stress, but that its effects remain statistically significant after controlling for …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

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 …

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …

income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their …While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …