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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden
Heckley, Gawain; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2014
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208693
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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden
Heckley, Gawain A.; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788969
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Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time
Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018
Our aim is to study trends in mental ill-health and socioeconomic-related mental health inequalities over time in Sweden. We also make a first attempt at disentangling why we see such a development, by decomposing any changes in terms of changes in selected demographic and socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208826
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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293663
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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - 2015
Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that yields the marginal effects of covariates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208703
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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733088
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Parental Income and Smoking Participation in Adolescents: Implications of misclassification error in empirical studies of adolescent smoking participation
Edoka, I. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
In adults, the negative relationship between smoking and income is well established. However divergent results have been reported on the impact of parental socioeconomic status on adolescent smoking. In this study we investigate the extent to which misclassification errors in self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364543
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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Heckley, Gawain A.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that yields the marginal effects of covariates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227851
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The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland
Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631744
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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018
In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of … socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Tobacco use prevalence and tobacco use quantities were defined for further analysis. Using the concentration index (CI) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931673