than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there … relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels …, and we repeat their analysis using the full range of data that have become available in the Health and Retirement Study …

Individuals’ socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …

health risks associated with current consumption. Data from the United States, as well as international evidence, suggests …

health economics shows that the addition of a simple autoregressive error terms leads to a more plausible and parsimonious …

health-care system, as well as the relatively weak welfare safety net might be the reason why human growth in the United …