the analysis of issues that are intertwined with who is present in the household, such as the measurement of income … for more detailed and thorough measurement of household composition in future multi-purpose household surveys. …

-country health studies. However, the validity of vignettes as a means to re-scale across sample populations critically rests on the … seek to test this assumption by applying objective measures of health along with subjective measures and vignettes. Our … fit and significantly changes the cross-country rankings of health vis-à-vis the standard Chopit model. …

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …