Search Results - subject:"concentration index"

How does education inequality respond to policy? : a method and application to survey data from Albania and Nepal

Devkota, Satis C.; Upadhyay, Mukti P. - In: Journal of economic studies 43 (2016) 2, pp. 166-177

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Socioeconomic inequalities of child malnutrition in Bangladesh

Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah; Sabah, Md Nasim-Us; … - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 12, pp. 1439-1459

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A general method for decomposing the causes of socioeconomic inequality in health

Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - In: Journal of health economics 48 (2016), pp. 89-106

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Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Health, Health Care and Health Financing by Means of Rank-Dependent Indices: A Recipe for Good Practice

Erreygers, Guido; Ourti, Tom Van - 2010

The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...

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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...

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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland

Madden, David - 2010

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that concentration indices fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be...

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

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269505

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Undernutrition in India An Application of the Corrected Concentration Index

Mishra, Udaya S; Joe, William - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 847-854

Measuring inequalities in child undernourishment with the help of the most popular concentration index (CI) has its own …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540643

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all? Revisiting the extended concentration index

ERREYGERS, Guido; CLARKE, Philip; VAN OURTI, Tom - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2010

attitudes towards inequality. Firstly, we revisit the extended concentration index which has been proposed to generalise the … value judgements implicit in the standard concentration index. We then examine two alternative measures which have desirable … mirror properties. One of these indices applies symmetric weights which is a property of the standard concentration index. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526756

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

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562536