This article assesses the employment and school enrolment gaps between disabled and nondisabled persons using the last Cape Verdean census. The unexplained part of these gaps accounts for most of them, whatever the age group considered. Furthermore, differences in age structures between disabled...

[eng] An estimate using a microsimulation model suggests that approximately 46% of married couples in France benefit from a tax gain as a result of marriage and 22% suffer a tax penalty. Influenced by factors such as tax allowances, minimum thresholds and specific deductions, the annual average...

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for...

type="main" xml:id="jage12017-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article characterises vulnerability to poverty in Haiti using a unique survey conducted in 2007 in rural areas. In a first step, using two-level linear random coefficient models of both per capita consumption and per capita income, the...</p>

Abstract This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are...

This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions survey data are not comparable in this country, we first propose to use the three rounds of the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing...