Healthy bodies and thick wallets: the dual relation between health and economic status.
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Summary
The first section of this paper documents the size of the association between health and one prominent economic status measure--household wealth--and outlines reasons why health may alter household savings and the empirical magnitude of these effects.
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- article
- Published
- 1999-05-01
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- 1,916
- References
- 31
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2009797510
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:44948862
Keywords
Earnings, Life expectancy, Economics, Inequality, Demographic economics
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