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 …

lifetime income and when studying those with high education separately. A competing risk analysis shows the relation between … of parental household income from five years during the indivduals' childhood between 1929 and 1942. The data also … parental income and mortality to apply to cancer as the cause of death. …

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 …

half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we … western european country - Germany -, as a banchmark for comparison. We conclude that Romania's welfare development … that of Poland, the absolute gap between Romania and other two countries (Czech Republic and Germany) widened in 2014, as …

education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling …We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes …

concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …

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 …

socioeconomic status (low education and income) and residents of the less developed central and western regions. This beneficial …Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …