The persistent correlations between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality in the US is well established. It has been demonstrated with various empirical models at different levels of analysis. However, there is no consensus on the relevant confounding factors or even the functional specification of the income-inequality-health relationship across the literature. We interpret this a...

À partir de données longitudinales sur la population indienne, nous estimons façon dont l’accroissement des discriminations envers les femmes affecte leur santé nutritionnelle. Tandis que certaines formes en Inde se sont détériorées période étudiée, observons systématiquement effets non linéaires ces changements l’état...

Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitu...

The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as fi...

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed evidence on the relationship betw...