We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better understanding of what we know … about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a good that individuals trade off against other goods, unavoidable … health inequalities result when after controlling for unavoidable factors (e.g., age and gender), differences in …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …

(income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

and education and decreasing in income and risk appetite. However, people directly exposed to major health shocks during …We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

A key question underpinning health production, and one that remains relatively unexplored, is the influence of socio … (peer effects) is not controlled for, eating habits and education are the main predictors of total cross-country gaps (36 …