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 …

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 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 …

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its … falling family size contributed significantly to improving child health between 1886 and 1938. Between 1906 and 1938 these …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

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 …