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

Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014

This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an … for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual …

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Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time

Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018

decomposition results show that distributional changes in the population explain the increase in suicide inequality and partly …

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Recentered influence functions in Stata: Methods for analyzing the determinants of poverty and inequality

Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2019

statistics using linear regressions or decomposition approaches. In this paper, I introduce three Stata commands to facilitate …-dimensional fixed effects; and oaxaca_rif to implement Oaxaca-Blinder type decomposition analysis (RIF decompositions). …

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What Do Demographics Have To Do With It? An Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition of Changes over Time in Inequalities in Alcohol, Narcotics and Tobacco-Related Ill Health in Sweden

Spika, Devon; Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018

The purpose of this study was to document historical trends and socioeconomic inequalities in ill health outcomes related to alcohol consumption, narcotics use and tobacco smoking over the seventeen years prior to the implementation of the Swedish government's first strategy for alcohol,...

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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; … - 2012

The concentration index and decomposition analysis are commonly used in economics to measure and explain socioeconomic … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …. The twin-based decomposition estimates, which control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level, are much lower in …

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Could Easier Access to University Improve Health and Reduce Health Inequalities?

Heckley, Gawain; Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of university education on medical care use and its income related inequality. We do this by exploiting an arbitrary university eligibility rule in Sweden combined with regression discontinuity design for the years 2003-2013 for students who graduated 2003-2005....

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

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2014

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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Socio-economic inequality in mortality and healthcare utilization: Evidence from cancer patients

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Glaser, Felix - 2024

Health equality is an important objective in public healthcare systems, and still, we see substantial socio-economic differences. Using high-quality administrative data from Upper Austria, we analyze the socio-economic gradient in mortality and healthcare utilization following a cancer...

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Correcting the Concentration Index for Binary Variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2011

This paper discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence of a health condition. As its point of departure, it uses the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff in this journal, where they discuss merits of their own corrections of the frequently used...

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Intergenerational transmission of long-term sick leave

Josephson, Malin; Karnehed, Nina; Lindahl, Erica; … - 2013

The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of intergenerational transmission of sick leave using universal Swedish register data on the rate of sickness benefits. We find that there is a positive correlation between parents' and their children's sick leave. The child-parent...

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