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 … meets both rigorous and practical considerations. We draw upon the World Health Survey data to examine alternative pragmatic …

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

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

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … point decline in a patient's two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

growth. We identify the moral-hazard effect in healthcare investments when annuity rates are conditioned on average mortality …

annuity markets and tax deductibility of private health expenditures. …

disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular …