One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of … illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups …. Using the World Health Organization study on global ageing and adult health, I find that the poor use a different reporting …

Our paper investigates the relationship between family income and child health in France. We first examine whether … there is a significant correlation between family income and child general health, and the evolution of this relationship … across childhood years. We then study the role of specific health problems, the use of health care services, and supplemental …

How much can socioeconomically-based health disparities be attributed to differential access to secondary and … specialist health care? We evaluate this question in the context of Arab-Jewish health disparities in Israel while exploiting the … introduction of public transportation to Arab communities. Primary care health services are readily available within Arab towns and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents¿ health status, their …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …

private health care clinics in Pakistan and find evidence of discrimination in non-obvious domains. Physicians differentiate …