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 …