%0 Book Section %B Investigations in the Economics of Aging %D 2011 %T "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Health %A Till Stowasser %A Florian Heiss %A Daniel McFadden %A Joachim Winter %K health %K socioeconomic status %X In health economics, there is little dispute that the socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals is positively correlated with their health status. The size of the body of literature documenting that wealthy and well- educated people generally enjoy better health and longer life is impressive.1 The robustness of this association is underscored by the fact that the so- called health- wealth gradient has been detected in different times, countries, populations, age structures, and for both men and women. Moreover, the results are largely insensitive to the choice of SES measures (such as wealth, income, education, occupation, or social class) and health outcomes. %B Investigations in the Economics of Aging %I University of Chicago Press %P 267-317 %G eng %U http://www.nber.org/chapters/c12443