Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self …-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our main finding is that there is substantially greater health mobility …

We present estimates of intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status (SRHS) in the US using data from the … of intergenerational mobility increases the explanatory power of child outcomes. We construct a monetary metric for … 0.4 for this new measure. Finally, we document striking health mobility gapsby race, region and parent education …

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self …-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our main finding is that there is substantially greater health mobility …

developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer …We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …

developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer …We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …

favorable socioeconomic status of the parents is predominantly associated with higher upward mobility in health. …We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the … Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …