Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts

Abstract

Temporally harmonized asset indices allow the study of changes in relative wealth (mean, variance, social mobility) over time and its association with adult health and human capital in cohort studies. Conditional measures are the unexplained residuals of an indicator regressed on its past values. Using such measures, previously used to study the relative importance of key life stages for anthropometric growth, we can identify specific life stages during which changes in relative wealth are important for adult health in longitudinal studies. We discuss the assumptions, strengths and limitations of this methodology as applied to relative wealth. We provide an illustrative example using a publicly-available longitudinal dataset and show how relative wealth changes at different life stages are differentially associated with body mass index in adulthood.

Poverty Alleviation Relocation, Fuelwood Consumption and Gender Differences in Human Capital Improvement

“…The risks of returning to poverty and intergenerational transmission of poverty remain. On this basis, human capital is an important factor to affect the choice of peasants’ livelihood strategies, which is also the core and key to improving income mobility, achieving sustainable livelihoods, and preventing a return to poverty [ 6 , 7 ]. Therefore, accelerating the improvement of the human capital of relocated peasants is of great significance in achieving the policy goal of “stable living and prosperity” and firmly adhering to the bottom line of not returning to impoverishment on a large scale, which has become an important task in the follow-up support phase of relocation.…”