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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …
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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …
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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 …
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Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...
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