Money, schooling, and health: Mechanisms and causal evidence

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1186, Issue , 2010, Pages 56-68

  Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Adler, Nancy E ^b   Dow, William H ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Income; SES

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONEY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL;

EID: 77249140026     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05340.x     Document Type: Review

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