rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth …

This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …

between health resources and income (taken as a proxy for productivity). In particular we determine the efficient level of the … get the same health care. Quantitatively, we find that the amount of inequality across the income distribution in the data …In this paper we study the efficient allocation of health resources across individuals. We focus on the relation …

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 …

What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for … measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health …'s health is related to his or her status within a reference group as measured by income relative to the group mean. Income …

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing …. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able …

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to ill-health; individuals are no more likely to die if they live … income redistribution can improve population health does not depend on a direct effect of income inequality and remains an …

We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income … not only responsible for mortality in childhood but also leaves a residue of long-term health risks for survivors, risks …

of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the … importance of income comparisons, and discuss implications for the ongoing debate on transparency policies …