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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden

Heckley, Gawain A.; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …

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Parental Income and Smoking Participation in Adolescents: Implications of misclassification error in empirical studies of adolescent smoking participation

Edoka, I. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

In adults, the negative relationship between smoking and income is well established. However divergent results have been reported on the impact of parental socioeconomic status on adolescent smoking. In this study we investigate the extent to which misclassification errors in self-reported...

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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression

Heckley, Gawain A.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that yields the marginal effects of covariates on the...

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The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...

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

Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel approach is contrasted to the standard one using a panel of...

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Progress in utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: Where does the equity gap lie?

Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us Sabah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...

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Explaining the Sources of IncomeRelated Inequality in Health Care Utilization in Denmark

Gundgaard, Jens; Lauridsen, Jørgen - Center for Sundhedsøkonomisk Forskning (COHERE), … - 2013

Objectives with the health care system often include equity considerations. One objective is equal treatment for equal need. In this paper we explain the sources of income-related inequality in utilization of health care services in Funen County, Denmark, by linking survey data to register based...

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The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time

Leu, Robert E.; Schellhorn, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van Doorslaer and Koolman (2004) measuring health using an interval regression approach to compute...

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Life at a premium: considering an end-of-life premium in Value Based Reimbursement.

McCabe, Christopher; Paulden, Mike; O'Mahony, James; … - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2014

The increasingly explicit use of health technology assessment continues to generate substantial public and academic policy debates. The debates are about puzzling issues whose correct resolution is not immediately obvious and the very explicitness of HTA’s use pinpoints the issues and locates...

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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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