Ranking populations in terms of inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach

Paolo Brunori, Caterina Francesca Guidi and Alain Trannoy
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Paolo Brunori: UniFI - Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence = Université de Florence, Polytechnic University of Bari / Politecnico di Bari
Caterina Francesca Guidi: UNISI - Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena
Alain Trannoy: AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: We offer a flexible latent type approach to rank populations according to unequal health opportunities. Building upon the latent-class method, an approch increasingly adopted to estimate health inequalities, our contribution is to let the number of socioeconomic groups considered vary to obtain an opportunity-inequality curve for a population that gives how the between-type inequality varies with the number of types. A population A is said to have less inequality of opportunity than population B if its curve is statistically below that of population B. This version of the latent class approach allows for a robust ranking of 31 European countries regarding inequality of opportunity in health.

Keywords: health inequality; inequality of opportunity; latent class; opportunity-inequality curve; self-assessed health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-19
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.4185

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