health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

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 … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model. We estimate that permanent shocks account for under 10% of the total … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college …

persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents …

categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate …Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … 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 …

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 …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … social stress by reducing income inequality, which is typically measured by the Gini coefficient. Decomposing the coefficient … into a measure of a population's social stress and a population's income makes it possible to show that steps taken to …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … avenues for addressing poverty and disadvantage …