Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?

Teresa Bago d'Uva, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Maarten Lindeboom (), Owen O'Donnell and Somnath Chatterji
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Somnath Chatterji: World Health Organization

No 06-033/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio-demographic group is rejected and correcting for reporting heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But the method does not reveal substantial reporting bias in measures of health disparities.

This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in Health Economics , 2008, 17(3), 351-75).

Keywords: health measurement; vignettes; self-reported health; reporting heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 D31 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-03-28
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