This article discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of a health condition, in response … data from the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement. …

Self-reported data on health care use is a key input in a range of studies. However, the length of recall period in … self-reported health care questions varies between surveys, and this variation may affect the results of the studies. This …

The dynamic evolution of health and persistent relationship status pose econometric challenges to disentangling the … causal effect of relationships on health from the selection effect of health on relationship choice. Using a new econometric … strategy we find that marriage is not universally better for health. Rather, cohabitation benefits the health of men and women …

We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first … examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. The second examines …