We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

Compared with the broad supply of literature measuring socioeconomic gradients in the distribution of health, only … concentration index approach with semiparametric estimation techniques to derive a new varying index of inequality that copes … without a priori sample stratification. We illustrate the power of this new index using health data drawn from the German …

We analyse the role of health in determining the difference between desired and actual hours of work in a sample of … German men using the Socio-Economic Panel Data for years 1996-2007. The effects of both self-assessed health and legal … and testing for the role of lagged health status. Important differences are found between east and west German Länder. In …

area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health … pollution we estimated cross-sectional multilevel regression models for physical health as assessed by the SF-12. Results: The …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable … estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …