Background Temporally-harmonized asset-based measures of wealth can be used to study
the association of life-course wealth exposures in the same scale with health outcomes in …

Background Asset-based indices are widely-used proxy measures of wealth in low and
middle-income countries (LMIC). The stability of these indices within households over time is …

Background Wealth mobility, as both relative (positional) and absolute (material) wealth
acquisition, may counteract negative consequences of early life adversities on adult health …

Social scientists and policymakers have increasingly relied on asset-based indices of
household wealth to assess social disparities and to identify economically vulnerable …

Background Although the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and health
has been well documented, very few prior investigations have examined the time-varying …

Healthy development of children in India is far from ensured. Proximate determinants of poor
child health outcomes are infectious diseases and undernutrition, which are linked to …

The Young Lives wealth index is intended to be the primary measure of socio-economic
status of households within the Young Lives sample. The construction of the index draws on …

Asset indices are ubiquitous in the debate about well-being in African countries, not least
because of the paucity of traditional household income and expenditure data. Indeed, asset …

Importance Wealthy adults tend to live longer than those with less wealth. However, a
challenge in this area of research has been the reduction of potential confounding by factors …

Asset scores are widely used as the preferred method of measuring socioeconomic
wellbeing of households in developing countries. We examine the degree of discrepancies …