SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to … protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper …

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

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …

compulsory and voluntary nature of the insurance policy design, alongside the costs (insurance premium) and health requirements … opposed to universal, and when it forgoes health checks (the monthly marginal WTP increases by an extra 28US$). …

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use …

We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European … participation and contestation in reducing inequality and expanding health insurance coverage. …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …