Title

Health and wealth among the poor: India and South Africa compared

Author(s)

Anne Case Anne Case (Princeton University)

Angus Deaton Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

Abstract

Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health are related. There are strong bidirectional causal links between income and health so that we cannot understand either without understanding both. What we call the ?wealthier is healthier? hypothesis asserts both that income is the main determinant of health, and that the international correlation between income and health is sufficiently tight for income rankings to indicate well-being more broadly.

Creation Date

2005-04

Section URL ID

CHWB

Paper Number

47

URL

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwjFN4HbBrDBZFg0bm15a1FLc28/view?pref=2&pli=1

File Function

Jel

I12, I31, O15

Keyword(s)

India, South Africa

Suppress

false

Series

9