In this paper we use data from the Retirement History Survey (RHS) to examine the relationship of some sociodemographic … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … seldom statistically significant. Indeed, some health problems -- high blood pressure, allergies, and tension -- are more …

more precisely the effect of health on total family time allocations. These data provide estimates of the impact of poor …I consider the health, family structure, and labor supply inter-relationships at both a theoretical and empirical level … family time allocation among market, home, and health activities is developed. The concept of a family health maintenance …

of access to health-related expertise - captured by the presence of a health professional in the extended family - on … intra-family medical expertise has far-reaching health consequences, at all ages: It raises longevity, improves drug …Mounting evidence documents a stark correlation between income and health, yet the causal mechanisms behind this …

economic shocks on the family's out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income …We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for the years 2004 - 2012 to examine the impact of … devoted to out-of-pocket health care spending. In contrast to static, cross-sectional analyses, our study examines how the …

We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to estimate the effects of poor infant health, pre …-pregnancy health conditions of the mother, and the father's health status on health insurance status of urban, mostly unmarried …, mothers and their one-year-old children. Virtually all births were covered by health insurance, but one year later about one …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …

The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status …, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult …, given the simultaneous determination of health and income. In this paper, we quantify the impact on health status of a large …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …

on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have … parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both …