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Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

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A Fragmented China

Poncet, Sandra - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

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