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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis

Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

The concentration index and decomposition analysis are commonly used in economics to measure and explain socioeconomic … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …. The twin-based decomposition estimates, which control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level, are much lower in …

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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016

To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...

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Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018

There exists a steady trend at which later born cohorts, at the same age, are healthier than earlier born cohorts. We show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find...

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Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients' health care utilization in Denmark

Sortsø, Camilla; Lauridsen, Jørgen; Emneus, Martha; … - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 21, pp. 1-22

individual patient data from several national registers to be linked. A concentration index approach with decomposition into …

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Pre- and post-birth components of intergenerational persistence in health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; … - 2019

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...

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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022

We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...

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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption of the older adults in China : a decomposition method

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Brewer, Mike; Dang, Thang; Tominey, Emma - 2022

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the differential effect of entering unemployment under UC versus the former system on mental health. Groups...

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Obesity inequality and the changing shape of the bodyweight distribution in China

Nie, Peng; Ding, Lanlin; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2018

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyses changes in bodyweight (BMI and waist circumference) distributions between 1991 and 2011 among adults aged 20+ in China. To do so, we quantify the source and extent of temporal changes in bodyweight and then...

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