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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health

Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024

We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...

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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused

Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023

We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals. Identification comes from random variation in resource...

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Health disparities by income in Spain before and after the economic crisis

Coveney, Max; Gomez, Pilar Garcia; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; … - 2015

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition method to unravel the contributions of income growth, income inequality and differential income mobility across socio-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in...

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Rising inequalities in income and health in China : who is left behind?

Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2012

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Every crisis has a silver lining? : unravelling the pro-cyclical pattern of health inequalities by income

Coveney, Max; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; … - 2018

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this association in times of growth and recession. We develop a novel decomposition method that focuses on isolating the roles played by government transfers versus market transfers on...

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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016

The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...

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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences

Pogliano, Andrea - 2024

's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …

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The health returns to education : what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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Dynamic complementarity in skill production : evidence from genetic endowments and birth order

Muslimova, Dilnoza; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Rietveld, … - 2020

capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic … exploits data from 15,019 full siblings in the UK Biobank. We adopt a family-fixed effects strategy combined with instrumental … firstborn are more 'effective' for those siblings who randomly inherited higher genetic endowments for educational attainment. …

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How costly is using livestock as a saving device? : a note on meat prices during food shortages

Zant, Wouter - 2020

We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this purpose we exploit monthly market prices of meat and staple foods in Malawi, for up to 72 locations (towns, villages and markets), for the period from January 1991 to December...

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