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Porträtt av Erik Wengström. Foto.

Erik Wengström

Studierektor forskarutbildning, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Professor

Porträtt av Erik Wengström. Foto.

Parameterizing standard measures of income and health inequality using choice experiments

Författare

  • Hjördis Hardardottir
  • Ulf-G Gerdtham
  • Erik Wengström

Summary, in English

When measuring inequality using conventional inequality measures, ethical assumptions about distributional preferences are often implicitly made. In this paper, we ask whether the ethical assumptions underlying the concentration index for income-related health inequality and the Gini index for income inequality are supported in a representative sample of the Swedish population using an internet-based survey. We find that the median subject has preferences regarding income-related health inequality that are in line with the ethical assumptions implied by the concentration index, but put higher weight on the poor than what is implied by the Gini index of income inequality. We find that women and individuals with a poorer health status put higher weight on the poor than men and healthier individuals. Ethically flexible inequality measures, such as the s-Gini index and the extended concentration index, imply that researchers have to choose from a toolbox of infinitely many inequality indices. The results of this paper are indicative of which indices (i.e. which parameter values) reflect the views of the population regarding how inequality should be defined.

Avdelning/ar

  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
  • Nationalekonomiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2021-07-22

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2531-2546

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Health Economics

Volym

30

Issue

10

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1099-1050