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Health and Wealth among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared

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  • Anne Case
  • Angus Deaton

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Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health are related. There are strong bidirectional causal links between income and health so that we cannot understand either without understanding both. What we call the “wealthier is healthier” hypothesis asserts both that income is the main determinant of health, and that the international correlation between income and health is sufficiently tight for income rankings to indicate well-being more broadly.

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Article provided by American Economic Association in its journal American Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 95 (2005)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 229-233

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Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:95:y:2005:i:2:p:229-233

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  1. Abhijit Banerjee & Angus Deaton & Esther Duflo, 2003. "Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan," Working Papers 253, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing..
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  1. Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther, 2006. "The Economic Lives of the Poor," CEPR Discussion Papers 5968, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Das, Sanghamitra & Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop & Ray, Tridip, 2008. "Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country," MPRA Paper 9946, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Lundborg, Petter & Nilsson, Martin & Vikström, Johan, 2011. "Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings. Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers," Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies 2011:19, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
  4. Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006. "Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France," Working Papers halshs-00590524, HAL.
  5. Mauricio Reis, 2011. "Self-employed workers' health and household labour supply," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 38(6), pages 658-672, November.
  6. Angus Deaton, 2005. "The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'," NBER Working Papers 11308, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Wittenberg, Martin, 2007. "Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression," MPRA Paper 2550, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  8. Fabrice Étilé & Carine Milcent, 2006. "Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France," PSE Working Papers halshs-00590524, HAL.
  9. James M. Poterba & Steven F. Venti & David A. Wise, 2012. "The Nexus of Social Security Benefits, Health, and Wealth at Death," NBER Working Papers 18658, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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