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Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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Conjugal bereavement effects on health and mortality at advanced ages

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - 2006

We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces many health status aspects over time, and that is linked...

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Do early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions explain health at older ages?

Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - 2008

The paper presents an approach which thoroughly assesses the role of early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions in explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the...

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The health penalty of China's rapid urbanization

Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community and individual level longitudinal data from the China...

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Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?

Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2006

Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by...

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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization : modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting

Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021

This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...

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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007

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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …

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Gender differences, HIV risk perception and condom use

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last-time-condom-use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for...

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