We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if … expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to … social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show that the results crucially depend on the correlation of health and …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as … show how some of the important aspects of the equilibrium, including emission abatement rates, health costs, and economic …