-country health studies. However, the validity of vignettes as a means to re-scale across sample populations critically rests on the … seek to test this assumption by applying objective measures of health along with subjective measures and vignettes. Our … fit and significantly changes the cross-country rankings of health vis-à-vis the standard Chopit model. -- Cross …

prevented injury per year. -- Compensating wage differentials ; value of a statistical injury ; risk measurement …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …