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Early life conditions and later life inequality in health

2013

Abstract Prenatal exposure to adverse conditions is known to affect health throughout the life span. It has also been shown that health is unevenly distributed at advanced ages. This chapter investigates whether health inequalities at old age may be partially caused by prenatal circumstances. We use a sample of people aged 71–91 from eight European countries and assess how shocks in GDP that occurred while the respondents were still in utero affect four important dimensions of later-life health: cognition, depression, functional limitations, and grip strength. We find that early-life macro-economic circumstances do not affect health at advanced ages, nor do they affect inequalities in healt…

GerontologyHealth productionInequalitybusiness.industryMortality ratemedia_common.quotation_subjectHealth and inequalityCognitionSDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic GrowthSDG 10 - Reduced InequalitiesAffect (psychology)/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growthEconomics of the elderlyHealth equityEarly lifeGrip strength/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalitiesMedicinebusinessDepression (differential diagnoses)Demographymedia_commonHealth and Inequality
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Reporting heterogeneity in health: an extended latent class approach

2012

This article explores how individual socio-economic characteristics affect unobserved heterogeneity in self-reporting behaviour and health production using a multivariate finite mixture model. Results show a positive relationship between objective and subjective observable health indicators and true health and support the existence of self-reporting bias related to socio-economic characteristics and individual life styles.

Health productionEconomics and EconometricsMultivariate statisticsself-assessed health multivariate finite mixture model biomarkers self-reporting biasSettore SECS-P/03 - Scienza Delle FinanzeStatisticsEconometricsPositive relationshipAffect (psychology)PsychologyMixture modelHealth indicatorClass (biology)
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