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Title: | The impact of health on poverty: evidence from the South African Integrated Family Survey |
Authors: | Godlonton, Susan Keswell, Malcolm |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 73 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 133-148 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | health poverty |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2005.00010.x/pdf |
Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of health status on poverty status, accounting for the endogeneity of health status. Using exogenous measures of health status from the 1999 South African Integrated Family Survey, which covered the Langeberg health district in South Africa's Western Cape, the authors instrument for health status while allowing for co-variation among the unobservables influencing both health and household poverty status. Health status, as captured by the body mass index, is shown to strongly influence poverty status. Households that contain more unhealthy individuals are 60 percent more likely to be income poor than households that contain fewer unhealthy individuals, and this finding appears invariant to the choice of poverty line. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |