Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … inequality in government output (health expenditure per capita) and outcome (health system satisfaction) during expansion of … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … health system responses, we show evidence of a significant gap in the number of infected cases, alongside regular and …

constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … village health and sanitation committees - to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

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 …