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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel approach is contrasted to the standard one using a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
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Could Easier Access to University Improve Health and Reduce Health Inequalities?
Heckley, Gawain; Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of university education on medical care use and its income related inequality. We do this by exploiting an arbitrary university eligibility rule in Sweden combined with regression discontinuity design for the years 2003-2013 for students who graduated 2003-2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208805
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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
In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of … socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Tobacco use prevalence and tobacco use quantities were defined for further analysis. Using the concentration index (CI) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892588
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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel approach is contrasted to the standard one using a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885283
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Progress in utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: Where does the equity gap lie?
Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us Sabah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251892
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819009
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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882493
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021 - This version: December 02, 2021
location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799475
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745418
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600917