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 designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self … suggest a complex structure of non-classical measurement error in BMI, depending on both individuals' and within …

search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … relevance for economics. The biological and evolutionary origins of personality traits are explored. Personality measurement …