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An examination of poverty and sexual orientation in the UK
Uhrig, S. C. Noah - 2014
Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top-line findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230513
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264
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Measuring socioeconomic inequality in health, health care and health financing by means of rank-dependent indices : a recipe for good practice
Erreygers, Guido; Van Ourti, Tom - 2010
The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381032
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Measuring income-related inequalities in risky health prospects
Kjellsson, Gustav; Petrie, Dennis; Van Ourti, Tom - 2018
The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794303
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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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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450717
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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163652
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Pre- and post-birth components of intergenerational persistence in health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Björkegren, Evelina; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; … - 2019
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027647
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Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018
There exists a steady trend at which later born cohorts, at the same age, are healthier than earlier born cohorts. We show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898024
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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; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 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/10011272731