We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better understanding of what we know … about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a good that individuals trade off against other goods, unavoidable … health inequalities result when after controlling for unavoidable factors (e.g., age and gender), differences in …

seventeen autonomous communities that make up the Spanish public health system, namely, Aragón. Given the important proportion … the health centre to the hospital affects them negatively; iii) sex notably influences the generation of both types of …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

education–health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors, conclusions, personality contributes to the education–health gradient to an …

health outcomes also allows for an individual level panel data strategy. We find that the behavior of specialist physicians …

Tradeoffs between health and wealth are among the most important decisions individuals make, and are central to social … and economic policy. Yet, only a few studies have investigated the utility of health and wealth empirically. This paper …)=h·log(w), where h denotes health and w denotes wealth. …

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption … that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The Grossman … model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Our generalized …

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 …

This paper examines a wide range of determinants of retiree well-being of retirees. Using data from the 2000 Health and …, and health. Retirees “forced” to retire or have defined contribution pensions or bad health have significantly lower well …