Petrie, Dennis; Tang, Kam Ki; Prasada Rao, D. S. - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2009
In a series of papers (Tang, Chin and Rao, 2008; and Tang, Petrie and Rao 2006 & 2007), we have tried to improve on a mortality-based health status indicator, namely age-at-death (AAD), and its associated health inequality indicators that measure the distribution of AAD. The main contribution of...