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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...
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the “right” indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941754
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Inequality, income, and well-being
Decancq, Koen; Fleurbaey, Marc; Schokkaert, Erik - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510184
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Inequality, income, and well-being
Decancq, Koen; Fleurbaey, Marc; Schokkaert, Erik - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385156
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Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications
Kuklys, Wiebke - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002817488
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An ordinal approach to the measurement of inequality in asset ownership : methodology and an application to Mexican data
Berenger, Valérie; Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques; … - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 969-1012
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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005
Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice … for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520489
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Inadequate bivariate measures of health inequality : the impact of income distribution
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Kverndokk, Snorre - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 2, pp. 323-333
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the income reference period
Schröder, Carsten - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 21 (2012) 2, pp. 77-115
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Estimation of Inequality Indices
Cowell, Frank - 2008
Inequality measures are powerful tools of applied welfare analysis. However, to use the tools effectively one has to take into account the characteristics of the data with which one usually has to work. These raise a number of common statistical problems which are addressed here for both...
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