“...This paper uses a unique dataset-containing information collected in 2006 on individuals aged 40–79 in 21 countries throughout the world to examine whether...”

“...Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood is of utmost concern since it causes irreversible damage and...”

“...The specific way the Athenians set up their democracy presents both theoretical and empirical challenges. Decisions were taken by majority vote in the...”

“...We use the Economic Freedom Index to characterize the institutions of the Athenian city-state in the fourth century BCE. It has been shown that ancient Greece...”

“...Social differences in the role of habits in health-related behaviour are explored within both sociology and economics, where we define habits as...”

“...Vita brevis, ars longa (or...life is too short for abstracts)...”

“...The objective of this article was to investigate the existence of horizontal inequality in access to care for six categories of elective surgery in a publicly...”

“...The Nordic countries are well-known for their welfare states. A very important feature of the welfare state is that it aims at easy and equal access to...”

“...From a beginning of small isolated settlements around 1000 B.C., the city-state (polis) emerged in Greece in the course of four centuries as a political,...”