A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called health-wealth gradient, is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

This paper estimates and decomposes income-related health inequality for people nearing retirement age in the US by … analyzing data from Health and Retirement Study. To reveal the whole picture of health deterioration with respect to income … ranking, we use Petrie et al. (2011)’s newly proposed income and health mobility, explicitly accounting for the dead in a …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the …

Economists have devoted a tremendous amount of attention to understanding the role of parents in driving within … reinforcing parental behavior, others finding evidence of compensation, and the rest establishing that parents treat their … first demonstrate that parents tend to invest similar amount of resources in the children during their childhood. By …

socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Data came from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2013, involving 17,663 respondents aged 45 and above …, educational attainments, age, areas, and economic quantiles were strong predictors of tobacco consumption in China. Public health …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to study the relationship between health status and … economic welfare at household level. We develop a model to estimate the welfare cost of ill health by exploiting the … methodology of the equivalence scales. The crucial variables in this approach are, besides the health status (measured in several …