This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia using the 2010 Living Standards and Social …-reported variable for health status. The Shapley-value decomposition is then used to estimate the contribution of early … adult health …

Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly ….5 Gini Index rose from 0.30 in 2000 to 0.35 in 2020, exceeding levels of income inequality in many countries. Air quality …

reporting bias affects the estimation of income-related health inequality as measured by the concentration index. We run a …, clinical health measures. We find that self-reported health measures significantly overstate the degree of income … propose the use of a multidimensional measure of clinical health in the context of measuring income-related health inequality …

income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …There is a presumption that when an individual's comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison …

income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … the psychosocial effect of individual i’s low relative income on his health. …There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison …

We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and … children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they … have an obese parent. Irrespective of their parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …