American Economic Review Vol. 98 No. 4 2008

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

Simon Condliffe¹; Charles R. Link²

¹ Department of Economics and Finance, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA 19383. · ² Department of Economics, University of Delaware, 408 Purnell Hall, Newark, DE 19716.

Abstract

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.

DOI

10.1257/aer.98.4.1605

Volume

98

Issue

4

Pages

1605-1618

Language

en

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