Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality

Paul Allanson, Dennis Petrie and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

No 2008-38, SIRE Discussion Papers from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)

Abstract: This paper considers the characterisation and measurement of income-related health inequality using longitudinal data. The paper elucidates the nature of the Jones and Lopez Nicholas (2004) index of health-related income mobility and explains the negative values of the index that have been reported in all the empirical applications to date. The paper further questions the value of their index to health policymakers and proposes an alternative index of income-related health mobilityâ that measures whether the pattern of health changes is biased in favour of those with initially high or low incomes. We illustrate our work by investigating mobility in the General Health Questionnaire measure of psychological well-being over the first nine waves of the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1999.

Keywords: income-related health inequality; mobility analysis; longitudinal data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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