health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our …This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses … the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and …

towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in …

This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals … different types of diagnoses. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

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 …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

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 …