How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … countries. In contrast, individual and relative income matter in some countries, such as the US, and not in others, for example … Spain. These results indicate that attention needs to be paid to socioeconomic inequalities in SWB of the baby boomers and …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …