institutionalization (or €292 at the time of the study) exceed the amount respondents are willing to pay for home health care at old age in …

The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities … shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational … standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as ‘healthy …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and … such associations do not fade over generations. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in ancestral health …

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better understanding of what we know … about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a good that individuals trade off against other goods, unavoidable … health inequalities result when after controlling for unavoidable factors (e.g., age and gender), differences in …