countries – Britain, France and Germany. In the former two countries and the Netherlands, at least for males, the income … countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …

cumulative protective effect of education on health outcomes. The less educated suffer a double health penalty in that they begin …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results … (AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non …

-- subjective well-being ; unreported income ; informal income ; education ; unemployment ; non-employment ; subjective … health …

countries – Britain, France and Germany. In the former two countries and the Netherlands, at least for males, the income … countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …

cumulative protective effect of education on health outcomes. The less educated suffer a double health penalty in that they begin …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper …

evidence of indexshifting and cut-point shifting for age and gender, but not for income, education or language. …There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper …

heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But …Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …