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

Nicolas Ziebarth () and Joachim Frick

No 274, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: health inequality; concentration index; income measurement; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 p.
Date: 2010
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