Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2001
between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth … moving from the 40th percentile to the 60th percentile in the wealth distribution increases the probability of survival by … between 2.4 and 3.4 percentage points depending on the measure of wealth used. A slightly smaller effect is found for women of …