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Joachim R Frick1, Nicolas R Ziebarth
1DIW Berlin, Socio-Economic Panel Study, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we show that the welfare measure choice has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. To assess the sensitivity of welfare-related health inequality measures, we combine a unique set of income and wealth measures with different subjective, cardinalized, and (quasi-)objective health measures. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using (quasi-)objective health measures.
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