This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … papers and their theoretical and empirical results. Recovery and contamination rates are functions of an individual's health …

, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …

measures and a wide range of health-related indices, for a variety of specification checks, and for most subgroups …

inequality for the countries contained in the World Health Survey; we also use regression analysis on the apparent determinants …Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8-8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …