We study the role of subjective social status on health and its determinants, with a particular emphasis on the … status, even after controlling for contemporaneous socioeconomic conditions. In particular, experiencing good health, having … status during adulthood, which leads to better health, even after conditioning for objective social status. The results …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …