Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … relations. We present a life-cycle model that incorporates multiple mechanisms explaining (jointly) a large part of the observed … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more …

. Our results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their …This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …