“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”—Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health
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Keywords
Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality; Extended concentration index; Distributional sensitivity; Small-sample bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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