Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 250: On decomposing the causes of changes in income-related health inequality with longitudinal data

Paul Allanson, Dennis Petrie

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    Abstract

    Regression-based decomposition procedures are used to both standardise the concentration index and to determine the contribution of inequalities in the individual health determinants to the overall value of the index. The main contribution of this paper is to develop analogous procedures to decompose the income-related health mobility and health-related income mobility indices first proposed in Allanson, Gerdtham and Petrie (2010) and subsequently extended in Petrie, Allanson and Gerdtham (2010) to account for deaths. The application of the procedures is illustrated by an empirical study that uses British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data to analyse the performance of Scotland in tackling income-related health inequalities relative to England & Wales over the five year period 1999 to 2004.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationDundee
    PublisherEconomic Studies, University of Dundee
    Number of pages43
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Publication series

    NameDundee Discussion Papers in Economics
    PublisherDepartment of Economic Studies, University of Dundee
    No.250
    ISSN (Print)1473-236X

    Keywords

    • decomposition
    • Income-related health inequality
    • Mobility analysis
    • Longitudinal data

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