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Poverty Does Make Us Sick.

Nazim Habibov¹, Alena Auchynnikava¹, Rong Luo¹

¹University of Windsor, CA.

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Poverty directly causes worse health outcomes. This study confirms that reducing poverty can significantly improve population health, even after accounting for many other factors.

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Area of Science:

Socioeconomic Determinants of Health
Public Health Policy
Econometrics

Background:

Poverty is frequently associated with poorer health outcomes.
Understanding the causal link between socioeconomic status and health is crucial for effective public health interventions.
Previous research has faced challenges in establishing causality due to endogeneity.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the direct causal effect of household wealth on health.
To test the hypothesis that poverty undermines population health.
To explore mechanisms linking poverty and adverse health.

Main Methods:

Cross-country survey data from 12 post-Soviet countries and Mongolia.
Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis.
Instrumental variable (2SLS) regression to address endogeneity.

Main Results:

Poverty demonstrably leads to worsening health status.
The negative impact of poverty on health persists after controlling for individual characteristics, healthcare factors, and trust levels.
Instrumental variable analysis strengthens the causal inference, confirming results are not due to endogeneity.

Conclusions:

Poverty is a direct cause of poorer health.
The findings are robust across different measures of poverty and health status.
Policy interventions aimed at poverty reduction are likely to improve population health.