This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures along with a range of nurse measured and blood-based biomarkers for a … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …

). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …

generations model. As the environmental tax improves the health-profile over the life-cycle, it influences saving, investment in … health, labor supply and retirement. As a result, we identify effects of environmental taxation beyond the standard crowding …

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 …

We use a set of biomarkers to measure inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health in the UK. Applying a direct ex ante … IOp approach, we find that inequalities in health attributed to circumstances account for a non-trivial part of the total … health variation. For example, observed circumstances account for 20% of the total inequalities in our composite measure of …