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 …

(not Indonesia), urban/rural and education (not China) and to increase income disparities in health. Overall, while …Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify reporting heterogeneity in self reports on health for …

clear evidence of index shifting 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 across populations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This …

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 …

In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …

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 …