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.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Ziebarth, Nicolas R. ; Frick, Joachim R.
Publisher:	Berlin : DIW
Subject:	health inequality \| concentration index \| income measurement \| SOEP \| 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