Bayesian and decomposition analyses for health inequality in Japan

Haruhisa Nishino

Applied Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 29, issue 7, 657-664

Abstract: In this article, the author investigates the inequality of health conditions in Japan using self-reported health condition data collected during a Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions in Japan. The used data is ordinal, and inequality measures for ordinal data are introduced. Bayesian and decomposition analyses for the inequality of health conditions show that the proportion of young people has decreased and that, from 1998 to 2016, health inequality also decreased. The decrease in the proportion of young people is responsible for the lower health inequality.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1883523

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