Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

provision of a range of services that include childcare, early education, health and parenting support. Local Authorities are …

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade …-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We …

by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …