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Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or … solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of qualitative models and relying on inequality measures that are mean … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that …
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status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the … examine self-assessed health inequality using the sample of world countries contained in the World Health Survey. We also … perform correlation and regression analysis on the determinants of inequality estimates assuming an arbitrary cardinalisation …
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implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … and higher health spending is predicted to lead to more health inequality. …
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in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth … and/or with lower wealth. These changes lead to inequality in exposure to post-pandemic income risk and, in particular, an … incentivising investment in health for those with low wealth and health, it reduces health inequality and, in the short run, the …
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paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …
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We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …
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In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and calibrate a health economic model based on principles...
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We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a transfer should reduce at least one measure of inequality: inequality in …
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We develop a non-linear forecast combination rule based on copulas that incorporate the dynamic interaction between individual predictors. This approach is optimal in the sense that the resulting combined forecast produces the highest discriminatory power as measured by the receiver operating...
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greater wealth inequality. …
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