domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a "veil-of-ignorance" approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non …The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or … wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …