demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years. Over the 1980s and 1990s, the infant mortality rate, under-5 …, especially in the 1990s, the pace of health improvement was slower than that recorded during the prior decades. In addition, the … distribution between countries of aggregate health improvements became markedly more skewed. These trends are in part explained by …

measures and a wide range of health-related indices, for a variety of specification checks, and for most subgroups …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

form of the index. These problems are illustrated by comparing inequality and deprivation in income and health in the four …

Recent happiness studies by economists, sociologist and psychologists have produced many important new approaches and … (as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong relations with income, labour market status and health state. In this … literature review we try to be acquainted with and analyse the dynamic effect of income, health state (ill-being) and labour …

life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …