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
Authors:	Ziebarth, Nicolas R. ; Frick, Joachim R.
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Gesundheit \| Sozialer Indikator \| Disparitätsmaß \| Einkommensverteilung \| Einkommen \| Messung \| Wohlfahrtseffekt \| Theorie \| Schätzung \| Deutschland \| Health inequality \| concentration index \| income measurement \| SOEP

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 4787
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	621203262 [GVK] 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:	EconStor

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