unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

Working-age people with disabilities are often overlooked in discussions of the latest statistics on employment, income …, poverty, and other measures. This book reviews what current data on this population can and cannot tell us, as well as how …

­roll tax and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers in all low-income households, funded by higher taxes on high-income …

percent of the federal poverty line), relative to participants with lower incomes. The study found higher-income participants … were less likely to enroll in Medicare and more likely to be enrolled in third-party insurance. Service use for higher-income … selected set of services among higher-income participants were generally lower than expenditures for the same services among …

Interest in evaluating which health care interventions work best under what circumstances has surged in recent years as … health care spending has risen. This brief, the first from Mathematica’s Center on Health Care Effectiveness, looks at the … new comparative effectiveness research (CER) initiative passed as part of health care reform. The authors discuss the …