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

Author(s) -

Simon Condliffe,

Charles R. Link

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.98.4.1605

Subject(s) - economics , panel data , demographic economics , child health , panel study of income dynamics , socioeconomic status , psychology , demography , medicine , econometrics , sociology , pediatrics , population

Anne Case et al. (2002), using cross-sectional data, found a positive relationship between children's health and income, with income's protective effect increasing with age. Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (2003), using a panel of Canadian children, found that low- and high-SES children respond similarly to health shocks, but the low-SES children are subject to more shocks as they age. Our study examines this relationship using panel data for US children. We find some support for the latter result of Currie and Stabile but also evidence that low- and high-SES children respond differently to specific health shocks. (JEL D31, I12, J13)

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