Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71512 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 04/02
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial aspects such as income or wealth or nonfinancial dimensions like education? Finally, is there a life course component to the health gradient so that we may be misled in trying to answer these questions by only looking at people of a certain age — say those past 50. This paper provides my answers to these questions.
Subjects: 
Health
socio-economic status
causation
JEL: 
I12
I18
I31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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