health status among older adults. We explore the hypothesis of an intergenerational transmission of health inequalities using … the French part of SHARE. As the impact of both social background and parents’ health on health status in adulthood … inequalities of opportunity in health related to family and social background. Empirically, our study relies on both tests of …

Background and objectives: Health selection into unemployment may be either direct or operate by reference to health …-related behaviours rather than health per se (indirect selection). Panel data are desirable to investigate selection effects, and the two … types of selection processes may be concurrent. We examine jointly the roles of health and health-related behaviours as …