income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

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 … inequality for the countries contained in the World Health Survey; we also use regression analysis on the apparent determinants …

persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for …

to violent crime is an important new channel for intergenerational transmission of inequality. …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions …