We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition … using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in …

We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and … children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they … have an obese parent. Irrespective of their parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …

This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … general disparity in child health is low across demographic characteristics. Inequality of opportunity in Tunisia is …

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 …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …