data sets from Britain and Germany to estimate hazard models of the effect of health on early retirement. The hazard models …Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …

over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic …, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on … latent class approach to measure IOp in allostatic load, a composite measure of our biomarker data. Using data from … Understanding Society (UKHLS), we find that a latent class model with three latent types best fits the data and that these types …

This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …