We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize … implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … is approximately optimal. Future progress in medical technology calls for a potentially drastic increase in health …

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how … the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the … 19th century relationship between material inequality and health was negative; greater average state wealth was …

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

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

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 …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of … of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income … growth rate is a non-linear function of the income growth if policy makers try to influence economic growth. As a result …

income - for both countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and (surprising) similarities in IOp in the light of …

for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an … effort-based tournament. A sub-set of subjects could then redistribute the income of another sub-set of subjects. We find …