We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are …

. The outcomes of these lotteries create inequalities of opportunity that can translate into disparities in health and … socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income … inequalities in education, wages and BMI in the UK are due to inequalities in opportunity that arise from the outcomes of the …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

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 …

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 …

A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies … have very low investment rates there are'intermediately' developed economies that exhibit extremely high investmentrates …

atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …