Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …