The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course

By James P. Smith. The Journal of human resources, 2007

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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “Furthermore, Smith (1999, 2007) shows that correlations between income and health are at least partially due to the adverse effects of disease onset on income and labor supply.”
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players* (2016, background): “Health is a stock whose correlation with income varies over the life cycle, and so may the mix of causal forces that give rise to the correlation at different ages (Smith 2007; Cutler, Lleras-Muney, and Vogl 2012).”
The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme (2016, background): “The above life-cycle factors also imply that the causality between income and health may vary considerably with age (Cutler et al., 2008; Smith, 2007).”
Assessing the Fiscal Costs and Benefits of A8 Migration to the UK (2009, background): “25 Although age is the main factor in determining healthcare costs, socio-economic status is another important determinant of health determinants (see e.g. Smith (2007)).”