The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement...

This paper introduces Parameter Estimation by Raw Moments (PERM), a flexible method for evaluating a policy's impact on the parameters of an outcome distribution. Such parameters include the variance (E[Y 2 ]−E[Y] 2 ), skewness and covariance of two outcomes. PERM simplifies distributional...