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Essays on health, work, poverty, and income inequality.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on health, work, poverty, and income inequality./
Author:	Gould, Elise.
Description:	125 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1461.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3128114

Essays on health, work, poverty, and income inequality.
Gould, Elise.

Essays on health, work, poverty, and income inequality. - 125 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1461.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.

This dissertation consists of three separate essays on health and economic well-being. In the first chapter, I explore how children's health influences the wages and work hours of their mother. I construct a theoretical model of mother's labor supply that explicitly incorporates the financial and time costs associated with the presence of unhealthy children. Using the 1997 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement, I estimate the effects of these costs on mothers' decision to work and work hours. After controlling for the financial burden of the illness, single mothers are less likely to work and work fewer hours if their child has a time-intensive illness and married mothers are less likely to work and work fewer hours if their child has a severe condition with an unpredictable time component.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Economics, General.

Essays on health, work, poverty, and income inequality.
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520 $a In the second chapter, I investigate the relationship between income inequality and health. While some argue that income inequality leads directly to poor health through stressful social comparison, previous research attempts to uncover this effect using aggregate health measures or those related to physical health. I utilize a mental health measure to capture the psychosocial effects of living in a community with unequal income. Using the Community Tracking Study (1996--97), I find that individuals living in more unequal communities are less healthy especially poor individuals.
520 $a In the third chapter, co-authored with Barbara Wolfe and Timothy Smeeding, we investigate how health status, health care access, and health care expenditures have changed over time. We begin by documenting patterns of health using the National Health Interview Survey from 1978 to 2000. Next, we present a model of access to health care, along with associated evidence of low and declining access to health care amongst the nation's poor, using the National Medical Expenditure Survey (1987) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2000). Lastly, we explore patterns of health expenditures across income categories, health insurance status, and health status for adults and children. We conclude that income and the presence and type of insurance coverage affects individuals' access to care.
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