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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all? Revisiting the extended concentration index

ERREYGERS, Guido; CLARKE, Philip; VAN OURTI, Tom - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2010

This paper explores three alternative indices for measuring health inequalities in a way that takes into account attitudes towards inequality. Firstly, we revisit the extended concentration index which has been proposed to generalise the value judgements implicit in the standard concentration...

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Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: A systematic review

Reiss, Franziska - In: Social Science & Medicine 90 (2013) C, pp. 24-31

Socioeconomic inequalities in health are an important topic in social sciences and public health research. However, little is known about socioeconomic disparities and mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. This study systematically reviews publications on the relationships between...

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Decomposing Differences in Cotinine Distribution between Children and Adolescents from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds

Edoka, I.P. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

backgrounds using the 1997/98 cross-section of the Health Survey for England (HSE). Three decomposition methods are applied … including a mean-based (Oaxaca-Blinder) decomposition method and two further methods that allow the decomposition of differences … in quantiles (the quantile regression and the recentered influence function regression decomposition methods). By …

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“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”—Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health

Erreygers, Guido; Clarke, Philip; Van Ourti, Tom - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 257-270

This paper explores four alternative indices for measuring health inequalities in a way that takes into account attitudes towards inequality. First, we revisit the extended concentration index which has been proposed to make it possible to introduce changes into the distributional value...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051281

Social inequality in infant mortality: What explains variation across low and middle income countries?

Hajizadeh, Mohammad; Nandi, Arijit; Heymann, Jody - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 36-46

Growing work demonstrates social gradients in infant mortality within countries. However, few studies have compared the magnitude of these inequalities cross-nationally. Even fewer have assessed the determinants of social inequalities in infant mortality across countries. This study provides a...

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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...

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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...

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Is maternal employment related to childhood obesity?

Gwozdz, Wencke - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Childhood obesity has been rising steadily in most parts of the world. Popular speculation attributes some of that increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children...

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Food environment and childhood obesity: The effect of dollar stores

Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Rouse, Heather L. - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 37, pp. 1-13

In this paper we examine the effect of dollar stores on children's Body Mass Index (BMI). We use a dataset compiled by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state of Arkansas. We combine propensity score matching with...

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