This paper analyses the relationship between net wealth and health using Waves 1 to 3 of the Survey of Family, Income … and Employment (SoFIE). The results show that lower net wealth is associated with worse health over a range of differing … those who experienced a health failure had, on average, less wealth and worse self-rated health than those who did not. The …

analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in … males, but not as clearly for females, the study finds that the education gradient is weaker for more health-related drugs … individual drug utilization. Whereas the education gradient for men is quantitative in its orientation (education affects number …

income, and the probable mechanism is health affecting the labour supply of the individual. In addition the study report that …This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of … SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

. Within countries, it assesses the possibilities for individuals to protect their wealth, labour and capital income against … institutions can be identified that facilitate risk sharing between high and low income earners, namely “social protection” and …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

" can be given a formal content and related to more standard economic concepts such as social mobility, income inequality …

During the past decade there has been a growing opinion of including more than an income perspective in the examination … using household indicators on expenditures, educational level, health status and land holdings. The purpose is to assess …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …