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 … 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 …