Petrie, Dennis; Allanson, Paul; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1113-1123
This paper develops an accounting framework to consider the effect of deaths on the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities. Ignoring deaths or using Inverse Probability Weights (IPWs) to re-weight the sample for mortality-related attrition can produce misleading results....