are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line ….Variations in these proxies account for the large crossregional differences in the income elasticity of poverty during the 1980s and …