(0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and …

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative health and reduce vulnerability to health shocks. Simply … providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to increase health savings, through a mental accounting effect. Adding an … earmarking feature was only helpful when funds were put towards emergencies; earmarking for preventative health reduced savings …

based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it, conceptually, a … "second best" to a Health-Inclusive Poverty Measure (HIPM). We analyze the reasons for the NAS recommendation and argue that …Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty …

care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance … financial risk while increasing the use of traditionally under-utilized preventive services - with measurable health gains …

except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used subjective and objective health information in the Retirement History … who subsequently received SSI were in much worse health than those who did not.After1974 the differences in health were …