Keywords: Distributional Economics; Health; Statistics; Social Policy
This is a project by Suzie Ballatyne and myself based on the Household Survey, which enabled us to look at some of the relationships between health and economic status.
A preliminary account of the research program is
Economic Status and Health Status Project
Two papers which report some of the findings are
Validation and the Health and Household Economy Project
and
Who Goes to the Doctor?
The final report, The Economic and Health Status of Households is available on request. Its Executive Summary is on this website, and so is Chapter 6,
Choosing Household Equivalence Indexes
Index of Distributional Economics
Index of Household Equivalence Scales