pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the …

several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

income and poverty. This implies that high-income people are more likely to benefit from economic growth, especially in … in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is remarkably lower than inequality in assets. In 2016, the Gini … coefficient of per capita expenditure and per capita income was 0.35 and 0.39, respectively, while the Gini coefficient in …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to … assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement … Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we analyzed health outcomes of American and …

pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich individual-level data from a six-country survey …, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it results in a 63-percent reduction in the … expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the pandemic are most noticeable in terms of …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional income-fuel cost indicators, we also use more proximal heating … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the …