The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without … substantial bias implying that health is caused by socioeconomic outcomes, which is hard to prove. This article contributes to the … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …

presenteeism are person-related (e.g. individuals' health or job attitude) or work-related (e.g. job demands and constraints on … absence from work). Working when sick can have positive and negative consequences for workers' performance and health, but it …

health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and speciftc mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting signiftcant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …

Our study examines social differences in health during childhood and adolescence in Hungary in the 2010s. For this …. These restructured data have been used to identify social inequalities in children's health and the possible causes of these … inequalities. Our research shows that children's health is strongly related to the social environment in which they are born, their …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

, even as childhood undernutrition remains a public health problem. These have important consequences for the design of … public health systems, especially in rural India. At the same time, the intra-household dual burden of malnutrition is also …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …