This paper uses data from the 2002-2005-2008 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to investigate whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are constructed, including debt-to-income ratios, the existence of debt arrears and amounts of...

In this paper we use the Spanish Living Conditions Survey (2005-2008) to investigate whether there is a socioeconomic gradient in health when alternative measures of socioeconomic status, apart from income, are considered. In particular we construct a material deprivation index that reflects...

This paper uses data from the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socio-economic Panel dataset (GSOEP) to provide first estimates of the impact that deprivation in various life domains has on individual well-being. Using a deprivation index proposed by Bossert et al. (2007) and a random effects model...