Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …

Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …

Can self-assessments of health reveal the true health differentials between 'rich' and 'poor'? The potential sources of … bias include psychological adaptation to ill-health, socioeconomic covariates of health reporting errors and income … measurement errors. We propose an estimation method to reduce the bias by isolating the component of self-assessed health that is …

Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding … and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. We find that the expected …

Interactions between knowledge and health are studied in a three-period overlapping generations model with health … rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …