This paper investigates the effect of severe mental illness on the capacity to hold a job and to earn an income. We …

Part I of this chapter briefly reviews the arguments for using consumption rather than income as a measure of living …

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … mechanisms, including nonlinear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional traps, public goods provision, and relative … deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on …

health status and in the joint distribution of health status and income (Deaton and Paxson, 1998). In this paper we summarize … and extend those results, and provide new evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Both surveys contain a … measure of household income, and collect information on an ordinal measures of self-reported health status (SRHS) that ranges …

This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …

In this study we examined how gate-keeping arrangements influence referrals to specialty care for children and …