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Wealth and Mental-Health: Analysis of the Older Population in Germany and Israel

Wealth and Mental-Health
  • Dina Maskileyson
  • Moshe Semyonov
  • Noah Lewin-Epstein
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Abstract

Social scientists uniformly agree that health is positively associated with economic well-being. That is, people of higher socio-economic standing tend to be healthier and to live longer than persons of low socio-economic status (e.g. Kawachi et al. 1997; Kennedy et al. 1996; Wilkinson and Pickett 2008; Semyonov, Lewin-Epstein and Maskileyson 2013). Two explanations are proposed for understanding the causal relations between economic standing and health.

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Mental Health Poor Mental Health Purchase Power Parity Household Wealth Total Household Income 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dina Maskileyson
    • 1
  • Moshe Semyonov
    • 1
  • Noah Lewin-Epstein
    • 1
  1. 1.Tel AvivIsrael

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