We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a...

Der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderte Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) berät seit 2004 die Bundesregierung und die Regierungen der Länder in Fragen der Erweiterung und Verbesserung der Forschungsinfrastruktur für die empirischen Sozial-,...

Since its establishment in 2004, the German Data Forum (RatSWD), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMBF), has been advising the federal government and the governments of the federal states (Länder) on issues relating to the expansion and improvement of the...

Consumer segmentation is very relevant in the design of wine marketing strategies. Previous studies showed that there is a relationship between the consump-tion situation and the willingness to pay for a bottle of wine. In this sense, the con-sumption situation is considered a segmentation...