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 …

domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a "veil-of-ignorance" approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …

the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …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 …

Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly ….5 Gini Index rose from 0.30 in 2000 to 0.35 in 2020, exceeding levels of income inequality in many countries. Air quality …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or … wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement 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 …

considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer … social safety nets in the United States than in Western and Northern Europe, in spite of higher per capita income. The West …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …