of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the … direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …, but fewer severely unhealthy goods. The empirical evidence presented suggests that differences in health costs may indeed …

We explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality … health interact. Our reading of the literature, and our own work, leads us to conclude that non-degenerate versions of the … Grossman model (1972a;b) and its extensions can explain many salient stylized facts on health inequalities. Yet, further …

We explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality … health interact. Our reading of the literature, and our own work, leads us to conclude that non-degenerate versions of the … Grossman model (1972a;b) and its extensions can explain many salient stylized facts on health inequalities. Yet, further …

dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …

explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic … conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the effect of current health care facilities. Specific attention is paid to … Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. The prevalence of functional limitations is found to increase in the nineteen-nineties, in part …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both age-specific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …