Ranking populations in terms of Inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach

Paolo Brunori, Caterina Guidi () and Alain Trannoy
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Paolo Brunori: University of Florence
Caterina Guidi: European University Institute

No 515, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We offer a flexible latent type approach to rank populations according to unequal health opportunities. Building upon the latent-class method proposed by Li Donni et al. (2015), our contribution is to let the number of types vary to obtain an opportunity-inequality curve for a population that gives how the between-type inequality varies with the number of types. A population A is said to have less inequality of opportunity than population B if its curve is statistically below that of population B. This version of the latent class approach allows for a robust ranking of 31 European countries regarding inequality of opportunity in health.

Keywords: nequality of opportunity; health inequality; latent class; opportunity-inequality curve; self-assessed health. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2020-01
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