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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 pattern (average drinker vs. binge drinkers) and also...

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Misreporting and Misclassification: Implications for Socioeconomic Disparities in Body-mass Index and Obesity

Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Lindblad, Ulf - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

Body-mass index (BMI), sometimes calculated from objectively measured and sometimes from self-reported weight and height, has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems related to, first, relying on self-reported weight and...

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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women

Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel approach is contrasted to the standard one using a panel of...

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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis

Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

The concentration index and decomposition analysis are commonly used in economics to measure and explain socioeconomic inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without substantial bias implying that health is caused...

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Income Receipt and Mortality – Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …

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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...

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Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Inequality-Equivalence Criteria for Bounded Health Variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013

What change in the distribution of a population’s health preserves the level of inequality? The answer to this analogous question in the context of income inequality lies somewhere between a uniform and a proportional change. These polar positions represent the absolute and relative inequality...

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Income Inequality and Individual Health: Exploring the Association in a Developing Country

Nilsson, Therese; Bergh, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis (AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non-linear positive relation between economic resources and health,...

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Childhood Health and Labor Market Outcomes in the Case of Type 1 Diabetes

Persson, Sofie; Dahlquist, Gisela; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and environmental components; its incidence is low and unforeseeable for...

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Productivity or discrimination? An economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market

Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Nordin, Martin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

Using longitudinal data, this paper investigates the penalty for excess weight in the Swedish labor market, distinguishing between the productivity and the discrimination hypotheses. We analyze employment, income, and sickness absence , using the latter as a direct measure of productivity. We...

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