Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the “right” indicator

Nicolas R. Ziebarth; Joachim R. Frick

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 pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Ziebarth, Nicolas R. ; Frick, Joachim R.
Publisher:	Bonn : IZA
Subject:	Gesundheit \| Health \| Sozialer Indikator \| Social indicator \| Konzentrationsmaß \| Concentration measurement \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Einkommen \| Income \| Messung \| Measurement \| Wohlfahrtsanalyse \| Welfare analysis \| Theorie \| Theory \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (8 S.)
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 4787
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/36015 [Handle]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; I10 - Health. General ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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