Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were?
Data from the British National Child Development Study show that, among 33-year-olds, ill health (as measured by cardinalized responses to a question on self-assessed health) is concentrated among the worse off. The authors seek to decompose the in...
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okr-10986-194342021-04-23T14:03:43Z Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? Wagstaff, Adam Paci, Pierella Joshi, Heather ADULTHOOD ALCOHOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD CLIMATE COMMUNITIES COMPARATIVE STUDIES CRIME DIET ECONOMICS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EQUALITY FATHERS FEMALES GENDER GOVERNMENT HOUSING HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HOME OWNERS HOME OWNERSHIP HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING INCOMES INFANT MORTALITY LAUNDRY MORTALITY NURSING NUTRITION PARENTS POLICY DOCUMENTS POLLUTION PUBLIC SERVICES ROADS SMOKING TENANCY HEALTH SURVEYS SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SELF ASSESSMENT ELASTICITY (ECONOMIC) INEQUITY DECOMPOSITION METHOD REGRESSION ANALYSIS PARENTS HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS HOUSEHOLD INCOME DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS HEALTH SURVEYS TENANCY Data from the British National Child Development Study show that, among 33-year-olds, ill health (as measured by cardinalized responses to a question on self-assessed health) is concentrated among the worse off. The authors seek to decompose the inequalities in health status into their socioeconomic causes. In this decomposition, inequalities in health status depend on inequalities in each of the underlying determinants of health and on the elasticities of health status with respect to each of these determinants. The authors estimate these elasticities using regression models that allow for unobserved heterogeneity at the community level. They find that inequalities in unobserved community-level influences account for only 6 percent of health inequality, and inequalities in parental education and social class for only 4 percent. Inequalities in income and housing tenure account for most health inequality, though inequalities in educational attainment and in math scores at age seven also play a part. 2014-08-19T17:56:14Z 2014-08-19T17:56:14Z 2001-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1631786/causes-inequality-health-live-or-your-parents http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19434 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2713 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia United Kingdom |
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ADULTHOOD ALCOHOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD CLIMATE COMMUNITIES COMPARATIVE STUDIES CRIME DIET ECONOMICS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EQUALITY FATHERS FEMALES GENDER GOVERNMENT HOUSING HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HOME OWNERS HOME OWNERSHIP HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING INCOMES INFANT MORTALITY LAUNDRY MORTALITY NURSING NUTRITION PARENTS POLICY DOCUMENTS POLLUTION PUBLIC SERVICES ROADS SMOKING TENANCY HEALTH SURVEYS SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SELF ASSESSMENT ELASTICITY (ECONOMIC) INEQUITY DECOMPOSITION METHOD REGRESSION ANALYSIS PARENTS HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS HOUSEHOLD INCOME DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS HEALTH SURVEYS TENANCY |
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ADULTHOOD ALCOHOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD CLIMATE COMMUNITIES COMPARATIVE STUDIES CRIME DIET ECONOMICS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EQUALITY FATHERS FEMALES GENDER GOVERNMENT HOUSING HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HOME OWNERS HOME OWNERSHIP HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING INCOMES INFANT MORTALITY LAUNDRY MORTALITY NURSING NUTRITION PARENTS POLICY DOCUMENTS POLLUTION PUBLIC SERVICES ROADS SMOKING TENANCY HEALTH SURVEYS SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS SELF ASSESSMENT ELASTICITY (ECONOMIC) INEQUITY DECOMPOSITION METHOD REGRESSION ANALYSIS PARENTS HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS HOUSEHOLD INCOME DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS HEALTH SURVEYS TENANCY Wagstaff, Adam Paci, Pierella Joshi, Heather Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
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Data from the British National Child
Development Study show that, among 33-year-olds, ill health
(as measured by cardinalized responses to a question on
self-assessed health) is concentrated among the worse off.
The authors seek to decompose the inequalities in health
status into their socioeconomic causes. In this
decomposition, inequalities in health status depend on
inequalities in each of the underlying determinants of
health and on the elasticities of health status with respect
to each of these determinants. The authors estimate these
elasticities using regression models that allow for
unobserved heterogeneity at the community level. They find
that inequalities in unobserved community-level influences
account for only 6 percent of health inequality, and
inequalities in parental education and social class for only
4 percent. Inequalities in income and housing tenure account
for most health inequality, though inequalities in
educational attainment and in math scores at age seven also
play a part. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Wagstaff, Adam Paci, Pierella Joshi, Heather |
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Wagstaff, Adam Paci, Pierella Joshi, Heather |
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Wagstaff, Adam |
| title |
Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
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Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
| title_full |
Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
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Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
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Causes of Inequality in Health : Who Are You? Where You Live? Or Who Your Parents Were? |
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causes of inequality in health : who are you? where you live? or who your parents were? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1631786/causes-inequality-health-live-or-your-parents http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19434 |
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