, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a substantial impact of ill-health on income, mainly operating through employment, although the magnitude of ill …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

The sex gap in life expectancy (LE) at birth is currently narrowing in all high-income countries. Previous research on … high-income countries and 7 country groups from 1959 until the latest available year. Contour decomposition is applied to … difference between countries and particularly country groups in the age-specific contribution to the maximum sex gap. In WE …

measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …

income inequality, particularly the severe impact of the cost disease,which disproportionately affects the poorer segments of …

indicators which reflect the distribution of individual characteristics (such as income and health risks) within a country …

We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …