to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …

to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems … no evidence of significant effects on mental health and work and life satisfaction …

when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces … significantly worse mental health later in life when they are between ages late 50s and 70s. Specifically, an increase of one …

after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health … such low take-up, we employ a general equilibrium model featuring the roles of the social safety net, administrative costs … lifecycle work disability risk, (2) strong and positive income and health gradients in private ODI take-up, and (3) inversely …

The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the … index we demonstrate that health inequality arises much earlier in life; by age 35, the bottom half of the income … sorting into lower-income groups. Using linked health survey data, we then examine the contributions of various mediators to …

What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health …'s health is related to his or her status within a reference group as measured by income relative to the group mean. Income …

birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that health status is determined by social status, defined as income … relative to the mean income of a reference group. When reference groups are not observed, health is a function of income whose …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …