TY  - JOUR
AU  - Case,Anne
AU  - Paxson,Christina
AU  - Vogl,Tom
TI  - Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood: A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews (2006)
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12267
PY  - 2006
Y2  - May 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12267
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12267.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Anne Case
367 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-2177
Fax: 609/258-5974
E-Mail: accase@princeton.edu

Christina Paxson
424 Robertson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1022
Tel: 609/258-6474
Fax: 609/258-5974
E-Mail: cpaxson@princeton.edu

Tom Vogl
363 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
E-Mail: tvogl@princeton.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-05-29
AB  - Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health. To that end, this paper examines why two sets of authors, Chen et al (2006) and Case et al (2002), using data from the same source, reach markedly different conclusions about  income-health gradients in childhood. We find that differences can be explained primarily by the inclusion (exclusion) of a handful of younger adults living independently.
ER  -