This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews …

One consequence of the rise in inequality witnessed over the past 40 years is its potentially negative impact on … capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments … of family background and declines in inequality in the production of child human capital as measured by the Program for …

We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that …