Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

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.

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Year of publication:	2010-02
Authors:	Ziebarth, Nicolas R. ; Frick, Joachim R.
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	income measurement \| concentration index \| health inequality \| SOEP

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 4787 10 pages
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:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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