Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good … that the results are quite sensitive to the inclusion of controls reflecting demographics, human capital and health status …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … methods for cases when health can be measured cardinally and ordinally. There is also a brief review of statistical inference …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …