domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a "veil-of-ignorance" approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation). …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non …The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer … social safety nets in the United States than in Western and Northern Europe, in spite of higher per capita income. The West …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or … wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that …