Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the

Nicolas Ziebarth () and Joachim Frick

No 4787, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: concentration index; income measurement; health inequality; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2010-02
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Published - revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics , 2013, 14 (3), 431-442

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