inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks …

Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …'s genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that …

wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth … accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create incentives for education, work effort, and entrepreneurship. We would … expect considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle if the life-cycle motives and incentives to accumulate are strong and …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test …In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …

with wealth and the degree of unhealthiness, leading wealthier individuals to consume more healthy and moderately unhealthy … provide an explanation for behavioral differences, and ultimately health outcomes, between wealth groups. …