We show that the well-known positive association between health and income in adulthood has antecedents in childhood …. Using the National Health Interview Surveys, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the National Health and Nutrition … Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household …

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

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … mothers, however, their health care does not suffer relative to that reported for children who reside with their birth mothers …