combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

spouses' health on household wealth. …A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study …

adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating … adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to …. Unhealthy eating intergenerational transmission appears to be more intense amongst lower household income individuals. …

In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in … health income gradient in England, which has a comprehensive publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) founded on the … twin principles of health care being free at the point of delivery and equality of access for the whole population. Our …

opportunity to explore the determinants of child health in the era before the welfare state. We examine the trade-off between the … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …