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

Wealth and Mental-Health

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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.

Work on this paper was supported by German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Grant #1021-305.4/

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    Dina Maskileyson, Prof. PhD Moshe Semyonov & Prof. PhD Noah Lewin-Epstein

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Maskileyson, D., Semyonov, M., Lewin-Epstein, N. (2014). Wealth and Mental-Health: Analysis of the Older Population in Germany and Israel. In: Lauterbach, W., Hartmann, M., Ströing, M. (eds) Reichtum, Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06013-8_5

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