This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

De récents événements ont remis sur le devant de la scène la dangerosité potentielle du virus de la grippe (épidémie de Hong-Kong 1997...). Le vaccin, généralement jugé efficace, reste pourtant sous-utilisé par rapport aux avantages qu'il procure. Pendant plusieurs décennies, les...

This paper investigates the impact of health risk on insurance contract with hazard moral. We use a bi-dimensional utility function (wealth and health status). We prove that the type of health risk influences the equilibrium of insurance market. A full coverage is possible with moral hazard....