Health inequalities among children

Abstract

My talk will address the link between the health of children and the socio-economic conditions of their parents. A better analysis of the health gradient among children, and of its potential causes, is important for our understanding of the complex relationships between health, income, and education; it also has important consequences for social justice, equality of opportunity, and the design of public policies. Almost all the empirical results I will present are drawn from a series of four papers, all written with Bénédicte Apouey. We provide empirical measures of the health gradient among children in developed countries, with a specific focus on France and the UK, and a specific emphasis on the evolution of this gradient with child's age.