. Together with the lack of mobility in health observed, we can thus conclude that Mexico is becoming more rigid over time …The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to …

expenditure suggests that health care is a luxury good in these states. By contrast, the short-run elasticity obtained from the … regressions in first differences is in the range (0,1) for most US states, which suggests that health care is a necessity good … instead. The implications of these results for health policy are also discussed. …

responses to domestic and global health shocks are heterogeneous; however, they almost always exhibit delays and sluggish … adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the …

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 …

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 …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …