Edith Aguirre

1 INTRODUCTION To formulate effective policies that enhance individuals’ health and their economic and social opportunities, it is essential to understand the complex relationships between people's socioeconomic circumstances and their health across their life span. Unfortunately, too often the ‘biomedical literature has generally treated socioeconomic position as a unitary construct. Likewise, the social science literature has tended to treat health as a unitary construct’.

1 INTRODUCTION Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) employs annual surveys to track the same UK households and individuals over time. It began in 2009, and built on and incorporated its predecessor, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

Resumen Este artículo presenta el primer análisis empírico sobre la relación entre la violencia doméstica y los ingresos laborales de las mujeres en México, país en el que este tema no ha recibido mucha atención dentro de la literatura económica a pesar de las crecientes tasas de violencia de género.