Smits, Jeroen; Keij-Deerenberg, Ingeborg; Westert, Gert - In: Health Economics 14 (2005) 6, pp. 595-608
Socio-economic status effects on total and cause-specific mortality are studied using data on all 15.8 million inhabitants of the Netherlands in 1999. Two problems are addressed that often hamper this kind of research: the lack of reliable social status information at the individual level and...