The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States

Condliffe, Simon; Link, Charles R.

doi:10.1257/aer.98.4.1605

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“…Understanding the determinants of child health is important because health in childhood affects human capital accumulation, and health and labor market status in adulthood (Currie, 2008). Findings firmly establish that family income is positively related to children's general health in Australia (Khanam et al, 2009), Canada (Currie and Stabile, 2003), Germany (Reinhold and Jurges, 2011) and the US (Case et al, 2002;Condliffe and Link, 2008). Moreover, the correlation between family income and children's general health strengthens as children grow older in Canada and the US, meaning that the disadvantages associated with parental income accumulate as children age (Case et al, 2002;Currie and Stabile, 2003).…”

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“…Currie and Stabile (2003) and Condliffe and Link (2008), we can exploit the longitudinal nature of the FACS data to examine the effect of income on the emergence of new specific problems and the effect of past specific problems on current general health, using dynamic models. However, the implementation of these models implies a decrease in the sample size (less than 51,000 observations).…”

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Family income and child health in the UK

Apouey

Geoffard

2013

Journal of Health Economics

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Recent studies examining the relationship between family income and child health in the UK have produced mixed findings. We re-examine the income gradient in child general health and its evolution with child age in this country, using a very large sample of British children. We find that there is no correlation between income and child general health at ages 0-1, that the gradient emerges around age 2 and remains constant from ages 2 to 17. In addition, we show that the gradient is likely to represent a causal effect of income on child health. Furthermore, we suggest that the gradient in general health reflects a greater prevalence of chronic conditions among low-income children and a greater severity of these conditions. Taken together, these results suggest that income does matter for child health in the UK and may play a role in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status.JEL classification: I1

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Family income and child health in the UK

Apouey

Geoffard

2013

Journal of Health Economics

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“…For example, Currie and Stabile (2003) found that the income-health gradient among Canadian children is robust despite access to universal health coverage. Condliffe and Link (2008) explored the determinants of gradient steepening, including health shocks or cumulation of disadvantage as children age. Murasko (2008) attempted to differentiate the influence of permanent from current income, and Khanama et al (2009) studied the extent to which factors such as parental health and education reduce the income gradient among children.…”

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The Income and Health Effects of Tribal Casino Gaming on American Indians

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The legalization of American Indian casino gaming in the late 1980s allows examination of the relationship between income and health in a quasiexperimental way. Revenue from gaming accrues to individual tribes and has been used both to supplement tribe members' income and to finance tribal infrastructure. We assembled annual data from 1988-2003 on tribal gaming, health care access (from the Area Resource File), and individual health and socioeconomic characteristics data (from the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System). We use this information within a structural, difference-in-differences framework to study the effect of casino gaming on tribal members' income, health status, access to health care, and healthrelated behaviors. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on before-after comparisons among American Indians whose tribe has at some time operated a casino and with-without comparisons between American Indians whose tribe has and those whose tribe has not initiated gaming. Our results provide identified estimates of the positive effect of gaming on American Indian income and on several indicators of American Indian health, health-related behaviors, and access to health care.

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“…The one study (Condliffe and Link 2008) that uses the PSID has two observations on child health but does not make use of the fuller data on family income. Murasko (2008) does explore a few dimensions of income including hot deck imputations for missing income, the use of income from one year rather than a 2 year average and the use of wage income in place of family income.…”

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Increasing Our Understanding of the Health-Income Gradient in Children

Fletcher

Wolfe

2012

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There have been numerous attempts to both document the income-health gradient in children and to understand the nature of the tie. In this paper we review and summarize existing studies and then use a unique school based panel data set from the US to attempt to further our understanding of the relationship. The long duration (5 observations, 9 years) allows us to add to the understanding of the pattern of the tie, through our ability to test for changes in health status and multiple measures of income, and the school-based nature of the data allow us to add community SES to the model. Increasing understanding of the income-health gradient may allow more effective targeting of interventions to decrease the gradient and hence decrease health disparities among children.

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The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States

Cited by 106 publications

References 11 publications

Family income and child health in the UK

Family income and child health in the UK

The Income and Health Effects of Tribal Casino Gaming on American Indians

Increasing Our Understanding of the Health-Income Gradient in Children

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