Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … evaluations mean that the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient is highly dependent upon the choice …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … evaluations mean that the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient is highly dependent upon the choice …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health …. The health measures cover both physical and mental health, and the cognitive development test scores span (1) Memory, (2 … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …