to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …. Chronic health conditions therefore increase in poor economic times. There is considerable spatial heterogeneity across local …

Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … aspects of child mental health from two major UK surveys. We test whether the different observers give reports that are … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …