Measuring skin color inequality in women's health in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from the PCSVDFMulher survey

Victor Hugo de Oliveira and José Raimundo Carvalho

Health Economics, 2024, vol. 33, issue 1, 3-11

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether skin color is a source of inequality in women's health by exploring the longitudinal framework of the PCSVDFMulher survey in Northeast Brazil. Specifically, we measure the skin color gradient in women's general and mental health, as well as in showing health risk behavior. We find that darker‐skinned women show poorer mental health outcomes and a higher likelihood of drinking and smoking more frequently than their lighter‐skinned counterparts. The skin color gradient is persistent and systematic, even when modeling different sources of unobserved heterogeneity and accounting for the existing socioeconomic inequalities and racial identity. We also find that racial identity is an important source of heterogeneous responses of women's health to skin tone.

Date: 2024
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