This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …

that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak. But this may simply reflect the difficulty …We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …

changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over … different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition … using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in …

This study explores global inequality in health status and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height as our health indicator since it avoids the measurement pitfalls of more traditional … measures of health such as morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. It also avoids measurement problems associated with using …

millionaire wealth as a proportion of GDP, but with low levels of income inequality. This paper uses databases from the Forbes … inequality of wealth and income distribution has a positive impact on happiness feelings, especially in countries with low levels … of income. Furthermore, wealth inequalities, and especially the degree of concentration of wealth at the very top of the …

to (i) the level of her income in absolute terms, and (ii) the level of her income relative to other people in her … country. The main findings are that (i) both absolute and relative income are positively and significantly correlated with … happiness, (ii) quantitatively, changes in relative income have much larger effects on happiness than do changes in absolute …

possibly less well-researched but nonetheless important role of education in the shaping of economic inequalities. The analysis …