This article assesses the roles of preferences and expectations on preparation for old age,
employing unique data on French individuals aged 50+. The data do not only contain …

The World Health Report 2000 proposed three fundamental goals for health systems
encompassing population health, health care finance and health systems responsiveness …

This paper examines inequality and polarization in self-assessed health, contributing
towards the limited research existing on health economics. We use data from the European …

When assessing socioeconomic health inequalities, researchers often draw upon measures
of income inequality that were developed for ratio scale variables. As a result, the use of …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at
analysing the income distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these …

Traditional indices of bi-dimensional inequality and polarization were developed for cardinal
variables and cannot be used to quantify dispersion in ordinal measures of socioeconomic …

Polarization is an interesting additional social indicator for analyzing income distribution
across countries, as it captures the phenomenon of 'clustering around extreme poles' …

The global trend of transferring responsibility for dignified aging from the state to individuals
is conducive to a variability of alternative attitudes and strategies. Despite having important …

Introduction. Dans le contexte du vieillissement de la population, il semble important de
mieux comprendre comment les inégalités sociales de santé évoluent au cours de la vie …

This paper proposes a simple algorithm based on a matrix formulation to compute the Foster
and Wolfson bipolarization index and then to decompose it by income sources. An empirical …