We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality slightly increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …

educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables …, endogenous regressors, and slope heterogeneity, we find that income inequality has, on average, a small, but robust and …

results provide evidence that the current public health crisis will exacerbate economic inequality, and they are among the rst …

The main challenge in studying economic inequality is limited data availability, which is particularly problematic in … developing countries. We construct a measure of economic inequality for 234 countries/territories from 1992 to 2013 using … data aggregation, and a calibration of the lights-prosperity relationship to match traditional inequality measures based on …