This paper presents a method for the measurement of changes in health inequality and income-related health inequality … over time in a population. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … health mobility inspired by the literature on income mobility. We also show how these measures of mobility can be usefully …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …

Health Economics] has proposed a new measure of income-related health inequality to overcome three shortcomings of the … normalization which was specific to the case of a binary health indicator. However, I have misgivings about his paper. His goal of …

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be … extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an … there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and …

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be … extended to incorporate individual heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our … association of health to explanatory variables which, in turn, accounts for a substantial percentage of inequality in observed …