tailieunhanh - IS THE CHILD HEALTH/FAMILY INCOME GRADIENT UNIVERSAL? EVIDENCE FROM ENGLAND

Therefore, more than 100 research hypotheses were examined during the planning stage, and as a result, the following core hypothesis topics have been established (Figure 2). The core study hypotheses were examined and proposed by working groups established by a federal advisory group. The topics of the core hypotheses can be roughly divided into pregnancy, birth, reproduction, children’s physical and mental development, asthma, obesity, injury, their relationship to exposure to environmental pollutants and social factors such as family and neighborhood characteristics, and also the interactions between these factors and genetic factors. In other words, the National Children’s Study covers. | I z A DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 1328 Is the Child Health Family Income Gradient Universal Evidence from England Alison Currie Michael A. Shields Stephen Wheatley Price October 2004 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Is the Child Health Family Income Gradient Universal Evidence from England Alison Currie University of Melbourne Michael A. Shields University of Melbourne and IZA Bonn Stephen Wheatley Price University of Leicester and IZA Bonn Discussion Paper No. 1328 October 2004 IZA . Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone 49-228-3894-0 Fax 49-228-3894-180 Email iza@ Any opinions expressed here are those of the author s and not those of the institute. Research disseminated by IZA may include views on policy but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks research support and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in i original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics ii development of policy concepts and iii dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1328 October 2004 ABSTRACT Is the Child Health Family Income Gradient Universal Evidence from England In an influential study Case et al. 2002 documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in the US with the slope of the gradient .