-country health studies. However, the validity of vignettes as a means to re-scale across sample populations critically rests on the … seek to test this assumption by applying objective measures of health along with subjective measures and vignettes. Our … fit and significantly changes the cross-country rankings of health vis-à-vis the standard Chopit model. -- Cross …

prevented injury per year. -- Compensating wage differentials ; value of a statistical injury ; risk measurement …

objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self … suggest a complex structure of non-classical measurement error in BMI, depending on both individuals' and within …

measurement error in both self-reported and measured anthropometrics with national representative data from the 2013 National … Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …'s reporting behaviour, only between 10% and 24% of our self-reported anthropometrics are free from any measurement error. Post …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from …

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 …