 A methodological rejoinder to "Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?"Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 259, issue C Abstract: There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison group yields an unfavorable outcome, the individual is dismayed and experiences stress that impinges negatively on his health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each other two indices that they characterize as "competing:" the "relative deprivation (Yitzhaki Index)" of individual i, ; and the "income rank position" of individual i. In this Rejoinder we show that because a measure of rank is embodied in the index and the index can be elicited from the index, these two indices need not be viewed as competing. Furthermore, we formulate a composite measure of relative deprivation, , which can be used to assess more fully the psychosocial effect of individual i’s low relative income on his health. Keywords: Sierra Leone; Sickle cell; Gender; Care; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:259:y:2020:i:c:s0277953620300484 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112829 Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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