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EX-ANTE AND EX-POST MEASUREMENT OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH: A NORMATIVE DECOMPOSITION
Vito PeragineGiuseppe PignataroPaolo Li Donnisubject
Index (economics)Ex-anteInequalityPublic economicsHealth Policymedia_common.quotation_subjectDecomposition (computer science)EconomicsNormativeBritish Household Panel Surveymedia_commondescription
This paper proposes and discusses two different approaches to the definition of inequality in health: the ex-ante and the ex-post approach. It proposes strategies for measuring inequality of opportunity in health based on the path-independent Atkinson equality index. The proposed methodology is illustrated using data from the British Household Panel Survey; the results suggest that in the period 2000–2005, at least one-third of the observed health equalities in the UK were equalities of opportunity. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-21 | Health Economics |