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Health Effects of Socioeconomic Status: Methods and Findings
Author(s) -
Ajakaiye Olu,
Mwabu Germano
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
african development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-8268
pISSN - 1017-6772
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8268.12005
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , instrumental variable , identification (biology) , human capital , econometrics , causal inference , economics , environmental health , psychology , medicine , economic growth , biology , population , botany
: We present a framework for analysing causal effects of socioeconomic status on health human capital. We analyse the role played by instrumental variables in the identification of causal effects. We show, by empirical examples that, the types of data available in many African countries can be used to estimate causal effects of socioeconomic status on health.