We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …

income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …