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 whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy …, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment (redundancies, government replacement salary and … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …