Purpose: In middle-income countries, interest in the study of inequalities in health has focused on aggregate types of … health outcomes, like rates of mortality. This work moves beyond such measures to focus on disease-specific health outcomes … with the use of national health survey data. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the national Health and Welfare Survey 2003 …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children’s willingness to …

This study addresses the issue of psychosocial determinants of health, i.e. non material resources such as social … capital, social support, and sense of control or self-esteem. We firstly analyse their impact on health status in addition to … psychosocial factors can partly explain social inequalities in health in France. Whereas the impact of psychosocial resources on …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

I show that serious, yet common, parental health shocks in childhood have immediate and lasting effects on mental … health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … take anti-depressants following a parental health shock have lower educational attainments in early adulthood, while …

the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? This paper asks how much older individuals (55-75) could work if they worked … as much as their younger (50-54) counterparts in similar health/with equal cognition. It uses international, European …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

-representative data sets of the WHO Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), 2007-2010 (n=42,464), we calculated wealth-related and …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …