The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio … perceived as fair while a substantial share of the respondents find the current earnings distribution in Germany unfair. This …

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 …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …

In a model where individuals differ in both their health care needs and their lifestyle preferences, we examine the … fair provision of health care when those who regret their initial decisions are granted a fresh start. By considering that … the scheme of taxes and health treatments that maximises social preferences. These preferences allow the planner to make …

In a model where individuals differ in both their health care needs and their lifestyle preferences, we examine the … fair provision of health care when those who regret their initial decisions are granted a fresh start. By considering that … the scheme of taxes and health treatments that maximises social preferences. These preferences allow the planner to make …

across states can be explained by differences in education, income, health, age, trust, stress, temperature, religion, and …, income, and health on aggregated subjective well-being (SWB) as measured by state-level WBI. Over 80% of the variation in SWB …This study estimates the impact of education on self-reported happiness across 50 American states using the recently …