We decompose annual average years of schooling series for Portugal into different schooling levels series. By estimating a number of vector autoregressions, we provide measures of aggregate and disaggregate economic growth impacts of different education levels. Increasing education at all levels...

A multimove sampling scheme for the state parameters of non-Gaussian and nonlinear dynamic models for univariate time series is proposed. This procedure follows the Bayesian framework, within a Gibbs sampling algorithm with steps of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. This sampling scheme...

Economists have until recently taken a back-seat in the debate on inequality and health, despite various suggestions that economic science has much to contribute to the clarification of issues surrounding that polemic. This article presents a bibliography of English-language sources which...

The health-equity debate has generally given far more attention to empirical rather than conceptual matters. However, empirical work on equity is at its most useful when it can be related to a specific normative framework, such as that provided by public pronouncements. This paper, therefore,...