This paper provides an overview of the growing literature that uses microlevel data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages.
In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by Socio-Economic Status (SES) in both countries.
This chapter is part of a volume which addresses the relationship between health and economic status, including why health behaviours vary across populations and how socioeconomic measures correlate with health outcomes.