Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health

Andrew Jones and Ángel López

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an application to the GHQ measure of psychological well-being taken from the British Household Panel Survey. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and genders which, in turn, accounts for a substantial percentage of the inequality in observed health.

Keywords: Health inequalities; heterogeneity; decomposition analysis; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D63 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-10, Revised 2005-06
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Journal Article: Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health* (2006)
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