The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

. Within countries, it assesses the possibilities for individuals to protect their wealth, labour and capital income against … institutions can be identified that facilitate risk sharing between high and low income earners, namely “social protection” and …

that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak. But this may simply reflect the difficulty …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 …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …

across states can be explained by differences in education, income, health, age, trust, stress, temperature, religion, and …, income, and health on aggregated subjective well-being (SWB) as measured by state-level WBI. Over 80% of the variation in SWB …This study estimates the impact of education on self-reported happiness across 50 American states using the recently …

distributed than income, and points to a long term downward trend in wealth inequality over most of the twentieth century. We also …This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that … on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This confirms the well known fact that wealth is more unequally …

proximity in the income distribution to the reference individual. …

emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies … aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The Western Development Plan has aimed at narrowing the income gap between … expenditure, however, has been on large capital-intensive projects rather than on education and other social spending. More …