goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …

and informal care following wealth loss, involuntary job displacement, spousal death, and health shocks in retirement … and reduce them with the onset of disability or poor health. We find that upstream transfers are also responsive to life …

This paper proposes a two-parameter family of socio-economic health inequality indices. First, these indices allow a … Boolean risk factor to be associated to other health dimensions. Second, multidimensional health distributions can be compared … the intensity of possible health transfers occurring between individuals, that is, the degree of inequality aversion of …

understanding of utility in economics. Here, we study the introduction of income aspirations in individuals' utility functions in …