TY - JOUR
T1 - Socioeconomic Status and Health
T2 - A New Approach to the Measurement of Bivariate Inequality
AU - Erreygers, Guido
AU - Kessels, Roselinde
N1 - Data come from SHARE, Wave 4, which are derived from surveys taken in 2010–201. More details can be found in Malter, F.; Börsch-Supan, A. (Eds.) SHARE Wave 4: Innovations & Methodology; MEA, Max Planck Institute for
Social Law and Social Policy: Munich, Germany, 2013.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - We suggest an alternative way to construct a family of indices of socioeconomic inequality of health. Our indices belong to the broad category of linear indices. In contrast to rank-dependent indices, which are defined in terms of the ranks of the socioeconomic variable and the levels of the health variable, our indices are based on the levels of both the socioeconomic and the health variable. We also indicate how the indices can be modified in order to introduce sensitivity to inequality in the socioeconomic distribution and to inequality in the health distribution. As an empirical illustration, we make a comparative study of the relation between income and well-being in 16 European countries using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 4.
AB - We suggest an alternative way to construct a family of indices of socioeconomic inequality of health. Our indices belong to the broad category of linear indices. In contrast to rank-dependent indices, which are defined in terms of the ranks of the socioeconomic variable and the levels of the health variable, our indices are based on the levels of both the socioeconomic and the health variable. We also indicate how the indices can be modified in order to introduce sensitivity to inequality in the socioeconomic distribution and to inequality in the health distribution. As an empirical illustration, we make a comparative study of the relation between income and well-being in 16 European countries using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 4.
KW - inequality measurement
KW - socioeconomic inequality of health
KW - bivariate inequality
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph14070673
DO - 10.3390/ijerph14070673
M3 - Article
C2 - 28644405
SN - 1660-4601
VL - 14
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 7
M1 - 673
ER -