introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the … direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …, but fewer severely unhealthy goods. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …