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Poor Health Reporting? Using Vignettes to Recover the Health Gradient by Wealth
Rossouw, Laura; d'Uva, Teresa Bago; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662529
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Poor health reporting? : using vignettes to recover the health gradient by wealth
Rossouw, Laura; Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621489
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?
Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314090
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Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Chen, Xi - 2015
and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401777
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Health and Inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Ourti, Tom Van - 2013
distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326364
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A formal investigation of inequalities in health behaviours after age 50 on the Island of Ireland
Hudson, Eibhlin; Madden, David; Mosca, Irene - 2014
, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the … context of a rapidly ageing population. In this study, we examine income-related inequality in relation to these three key … indices and decompose them to determine the factors which contribute most to inequality. We then examine whether differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343168
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558641
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601022
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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in EU
Jianu, Ionuț - 2018
health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985581
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Social security and fighting poverty in Tunisia
Khemili, Hasna; Belloumi, Mounir - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using survey data collected between July 2012 and January 2014, covering 200 poor households. We used questionnaire data, which gave a thorough analysis of the reactions, behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009815