It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or … happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main … novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of own income, relevance of the income of the reference group and of …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries … results accounts for ≈1% of the variance in self-reported income in two independent samples (N = 29,440) and improves upon the …

An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income … countries – Britain, France and Germany. In the former two countries and the Netherlands, at least for males, the income … countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …

empirical performance of our first order correction term using income data for 15 European countries and the US, and show that …

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing … social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …

We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross …-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in … average income) and national income dispersion (income distribution) effects. This yields insights for relevant aggregate …