This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …

inequality. Moreover, health is a better indicator of an individual’s relative welfare position than income or consumption … incorporates differences in consumption, leisure, health, and mortality. We find large disparities in welfare that have increased … over time. Incorporating the cost of living with poor health into elderly welfare substantially increases the overall …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

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 …