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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …
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We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …
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We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes … in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …
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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …
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Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...
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contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …
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