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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208826
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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). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142974
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208827
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208617
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208647
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208566
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The evolution of health over the life cycle
Hosseini, Roozbeh; Kopecky, Karen A.; Zhao, Kai - 2019
We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self-reported health status, particularly when studying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030294
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Diabetes morbidity after displacement
Bergemann, Annette; Grönqvist, Erik; … - 2018
We investigate how career disruptions in terms of job loss may impact morbidity for individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Combining unique, high-quality longitudinal data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR) with matched employer-employee data, we focus on individuals...
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