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 …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends … strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that labor …

myeloma mortality rate using longitudinal country-level data on 26 countries during the period 2005-2009. Countries that had … larger increases in the number of chemotherapy regimens had larger subsequent declines in myeloma mortality rates …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …

the political turmoil in the Arab world, with the so-called Arab Spring …

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 …

per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …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 …