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 …

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 …

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …