Abstract Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of relationship between relative income and life satisfaction, test empirically if features value function prospect theory carry over to experienced utility. draw on a unique panel dataset middle-income country that allows us work with an endogenous reference income, which differs individuals same observab...

OBJECTIVE To investigate time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause specific neonatal mortality in order to assess changing patterns in mortality due to different causes, particularly prematurity, and identify key areas of focus for future intervention strategies. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS All neonatal deaths in singleton infants born between...

BACKGROUND Relative deprivation has previously been discussed as a possible mechanism underlying the income-health relation. The idea is that income matters to the individual's health, over and above the increased command over resources, as the basis of social comparisons between a person and his or her reference group. The following study aimed to analyze the role of individual-level relative ...

This paper describes an analysis of mortality among census areas in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The number of deaths following days with high particulate air pollution were compared with deaths on matched unpolluted days. The possible role of population age structure, relative deprivation (estimated using the NZDep96 index) and local exposure to outdoor air pollution from household f...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Wa...