Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1562577

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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator

SOEPpaper No. 274

9 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2010

See all articles by Nicolas R. Ziebarth

Joachim R. Frick

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) (Deceased) ; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (Deceased)

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Date Written: February 2010

Abstract

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using objective health measures.

Keywords: health inequality, concentration index, income measurement, SOEP

JEL Classification: D31, I1, I12

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Ziebarth, Nicolas R. and Frick, Joachim R., Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator (February 2010). SOEPpaper No. 274, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1562577 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1562577