Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its' trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine …

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality … the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the …

in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth … incentivising investment in health for those with low wealth and health, it reduces health inequality and, in the short run, the … distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption …

We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations … model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at … annuity markets and tax deductibility of private health expenditures. …

favorable effects on the health of older emigrants. The economic similarity of countries and the free intra-European mobility …The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating …