Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality: welfare foundations and alternative measures

Paul Allanson

No 240, Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics from Economic Studies, University of Dundee

Abstract: This paper elaborates the approach to the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities first proposed in Allanson, Gerdtham and Petrie (2010). In particular, the paper establishes the normative basis of their mobility indices by embedding their decomposition of the change in the health concentration index within a broader analysis of the change in “health achievement” or wellbeing. The paper further shows that their decomposition procedure can also be used to analyse the change in a range of other commonly-used incomerelated health inequality measures, including the generalised concentration index and the relative inequality index. We illustrate our work by extending their investigation of 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)
JEL-codes: D39 D63 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-08
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