In this paper we investigate the joint conditional distribution of health (life expectancy) and income growth and its …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

and services, subjective poverty), and on their health (self-rated health, satisfaction with health). The simple bivariate … that income inequality does not reduce well-being, financial quality of life, or health in advanced societies. These result …This paper analyses the effect of income inequality on Europeans’ quality of life, specifically on their overall well …

health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first …

This chapter goes beyond the traditional economic thinking about the relationship between health and income – simply … for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. That is, better health does not have to wait for an improved economy … stated: wealth is needed to achieve health – by presenting evidence that population health is an important factor in …

opportunity, income, poverty, quality of life, rural migration, rural women and birth rate; notes economic aid provided by World …

We introduce the Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP), which is developing two separate datasets (The Global … Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of … monthly real consumption and income of every decile of the population (a ‘consumption/income profile’) for the vast majority …