Paper #929

Título:

Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health

Autores:

Andrew M. Jones y Ángel López

Data:

Octubre 2004

Resumen:

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an application to the GHQ measure of psychological well-being taken from the British Household Panel Survey. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and genders which, in turn, accounts for a substantial percentage of the inequality in observed health.

Palabras clave:

Health inequalities, heterogeneity, decomposition analysis, panel data

Códigos JEL:

D63, I12, C21

Área de investigación:

Economía Laboral, Pública, de Desarrollo y de la Salud

Númuero serie CRES:

46

Publicado en:

Journal of Economic Inequality, vol 4(3), pp. 347-365. DOI: 10.1007/s10888-005-9019-z, 2006

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