ABSTRACT
This paper extends previous measurements of the children’s income-health gradient through 2015. We first replicate findings about the steepness of the gradient from 1986 to 2005. We then find that since 2005, the health gradient between children in low-income families and high-income families has flattened, but it still steepens with age. We also show that overall children’s health has improved since 2005.
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Brian Staihr for their comments and suggestions.
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Notes
1 See Appendix A for a full explanation of the imputation method and estimates which use a simpler midpoint method.
2 Results are robust to including these children. See Appendix .
3 We repeated the analysis using an OLS probability model and obtained similar results. See .
4 See Appendix B for a recreation of CLP’s primary table and figure and a side-by-side comparison with the original.
5 –3.196*[ln($62,703+$23,037)-ln($62,703)] = −1.0.
6 Ibid.