: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth … incentivising investment in health for those with low wealth and health, it reduces health inequality and, in the short run, the … distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is … evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship … inversely related to body mass, however positively related to weight. Because weight increased with age and age inequality, the …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality … the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the …

We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations … model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at … annuity markets and tax deductibility of private health expenditures. …