In this paper the causal effects of socioeconomic status, in particular income, on individuals health in the European … Union are analysed. We focus on the relationship between income and health. Finally, an international comparison of … concentration indices for socioeconomic inequality in health based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is presented …

This paper analyses the relationship between net wealth and health using Waves 1 to 3 of the Survey of Family, Income … and Employment (SoFIE). The results show that lower net wealth is associated with worse health over a range of differing … those who experienced a health failure had, on average, less wealth and worse self-rated health than those who did not. The …

income, and the probable mechanism is health affecting the labour supply of the individual. In addition the study report that …This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of … SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to …

analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in … males, but not as clearly for females, the study finds that the education gradient is weaker for more health-related drugs … individual drug utilization. Whereas the education gradient for men is quantitative in its orientation (education affects number …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …

The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate … wealth differences raise aggregate profit and output but entail distributional utility losses and increased inequality. …

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household's economic well-being was lower in …