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Doorslaer (1994) to measure the degree of income related health inequality in Canada by means of concentration indices. …This study uses data from 1994 National Population Health Survey and applies the methods developed by Wagstaff and van …
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objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
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objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
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The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years, their properties and majorization criteria. It offers a generalisation of Bourguignon index proposed so that it includes Tsui measures (1999) while preserving the virtues of...
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objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069013
objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018707
objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health …We show that the magnitude of the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The … highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205849
in proportion to national income. Then, we present novel estimates of wealth concentration between 1863 and 1914 …Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely …, Italy presented a historically high value of total private wealth but had relatively small relevance in total bequests flows …
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education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling …We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes …
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half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we … western european country - Germany -, as a banchmark for comparison. We conclude that Romania's welfare development … that of Poland, the absolute gap between Romania and other two countries (Czech Republic and Germany) widened in 2014, as …
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