Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health … heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But …

, 639–664.<P> Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in … health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by … purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we …