Poor Health Reporting? Using Vignettes to Recover the Health Gradient by Wealth
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
References listed on IDEAS
- van Doorslaer, Eddy & Gerdtham, Ulf-G., 2003. "Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 57(9), pages 1621-1629, November.
- Cécile Charasse-Pouélé & Martin Fournier, 2006. "Health Disparities between racial groups in South Africa - A decomposition Analysis," Post-Print hal-00134778, HAL.
- Michael Baker & Mark Stabile & Catherine Deri, 2004.
"What Do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?,"
Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 39(4).
- Michael Baker & Mark Stabile & Catherine Deri, 2001. "What do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?," NBER Working Papers 8419, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Humphries, Karin H. & van Doorslaer, Eddy, 2000.
"Income-related health inequality in Canada,"
Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 50(5), pages 663-671, March.
- Humphries, K.H. & Van Doorslaer, E., 1998. "Income-Related Health Inequality in Canada," Centre for Health Services and Policy Research 98:10d, University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research..
- Teresa Bago d'Uva & Eddy Van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O'Donnell, 2008.
"Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?,"
Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(3), pages 351-375, March.
- Teresa Bago d’Uva & Eddy Van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O’Donnell & Somnath Chatterji, 2006. "Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 06/03, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Teresa Bago d'Uva & Eddy van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O'Donnell & Somnath Chatterji, 2006. "Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 06-033/3, Tinbergen Institute.
- Cécile Charasse-Pouélé & Martin Fournier, 2006. "Health disparities between racial groups in South Africa: a decomposition analysis," Post-Print halshs-00161711, HAL.
- Lindeboom, Maarten & van Doorslaer, Eddy, 2004.
"Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health,"
Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 1083-1099, November.
- Maarten Lindeboom & Eddy van Doorslaer, 2003. "Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-042/3, Tinbergen Institute.
- Lindeboom, Maarten & van Doorslaer, Eddy, 2004. "Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health," IZA Discussion Papers 1286, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo & Andrew M Jones & Nigel Rice, "undated".
"Reporting Bias and Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health. Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey,"
Discussion Papers
04/18, Department of Economics, University of York.
- Cristina Hernández-Quevedo & Andrew M Jones & Nigel Rice, 2005. "Reporting bias and heterogeneity in selfassessed health. Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 05/04, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Franco Peracchi & Claudio Rossetti, 2012. "Heterogeneity in health responses and anchoring vignettes," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 42(2), pages 513-538, April.
- Özler, Berk, 2007.
"Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-apartheid South Africa,"
Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 55(3), pages 487-529, April.
- Johannes G. Hoogeveen & Berk ??zler, 2005. "Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp739, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
- Teresa Bago d’Uva & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O’Donnell & Eddy van Doorslaer, 2011.
"Slipping Anchor?: Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity,"
Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 46(4), pages 875-906.
- Bago d'Uva T & Lindeboom M & O'Donnell O & van Doorslaer E, 2009. "Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 09/30, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Teresa Bago d'Uva & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O'Donnell & Eddy van Doorslaer, 2009. "Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 09-091/3, Tinbergen Institute.
- repec:hal:wpaper:halshs-00590524 is not listed on IDEAS
- Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006.
"Income‐related reporting heterogeneity in self‐assessed health: evidence from France,"
Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(9), pages 965-981, September.
- Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006. "Income-related reporting heterogeneity inself-assessed health: Evidence from France," Post-Print halshs-00754133, HAL.
- Christopher Murray, 2006. "Health Systems Performance Assessment," Monograph 000270, Office of Health Economics.
- Kristensen, Nicolai & Johansson, Edvard, 2008.
"New evidence on cross-country differences in job satisfaction using anchoring vignettes,"
Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 96-117, February.
- Kristensen, Nicolai & Johansson, Edvard, 2006. "New Evidence on Cross-Country Differences in Job Satisfaction Using Anchoring Vignettes," Working Papers 06-1, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics.
- Maarten Lindeboom & Marcel Kerkhofs, 2004. "Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and Endogeneity in the Relationship Between Health and Work," CEIS Research Paper 46, Tor Vergata University, CEIS.
- Arthur van Soest & Liam Delaney & Colm Harmon & Arie Kapteyn & James P. Smith, 2011. "Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 174(3), pages 575-595, July.
- Teresa Molina, 2016. "Reporting Heterogeneity and Health Disparities Across Gender and Education Levels: Evidence From Four Countries," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 53(2), pages 295-323, April.
- Nigel Rice & Silvana Robone & Peter C. Smith, 2012.
"Vignettes and health systems responsiveness in cross‐country comparative analyses,"
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 175(2), pages 337-369, April.
- Nigel Rice & Silvana Robone & Peter Smith, 2009. "Vignettes and health systems responsiveness in crosscountry comparative analyses," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 09/29, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006.
"Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France,"
Health Economics,
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(9), pages 965-981.
- Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006. "Income-related reporting heterogeneity inself-assessed health: Evidence from France," Post-Print halshs-00754133, HAL.
- Fabrice Etilé & Carine Milcent, 2006. "Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France," Post-Print halshs-00590524, HAL.
- Cally Ardington & Boingotlo Gasealahwe, 2014. "Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(1), pages 127-145, January.
- repec:hal:psewpa:halshs-00590524 is not listed on IDEAS
- Maarten Lindeboom & Marcel Kerkhofs, 2009. "Health and work of the elderly: subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(6), pages 1024-1046.
- Jennifer Beam Dowd & Megan Todd, 2011. "Does Self-reported Health Bias the Measurement of Health Inequalities in U.S. Adults? Evidence Using Anchoring Vignettes From the Health and Retirement Study," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 66(4), pages 478-489.
- Charasse-Pouélé, Cécile & Fournier, Martin, 2006. "Health disparities between racial groups in South Africa: A decomposition analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 62(11), pages 2897-2914, June.
Citations
RePEc Biblio mentions
As found on the RePEc Biblio, the curated bibliography for Economics:Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Carmen S. Christian & Ulf-G. Gerdtham & Dumisani Hompashe & Anja Smith & Ronelle Burger, 2018. "Measuring Quality Gaps in TB Screening in South Africa Using Standardised Patient Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-10, April.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Laura Rossouw & Teresa Bago d’Uva & Eddy Doorslaer, 2018. "Poor Health Reporting? Using Anchoring Vignettes to Uncover Health Disparities by Wealth and Race," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 55(5), pages 1935-1956, October.
- Laura Rossouw, 2015. "Poor health reporting: Do poor South Africans underestimate their health needs?," WIDER Working Paper Series 027, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
- Udo Schneider & Christian Pfarr & Brit Schneider & Volker Ulrich, 2012.
"I feel good! Gender differences and reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health,"
The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 13(3), pages 251-265, June.
- Pfarr, Christian & Schneider, Brit S. & Schneider, Udo & Ulrich, Volker, 2010. "I feel good! Gender differences and reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health," MPRA Paper 24231, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Laura Rossouw, 2015. "Poor Health Reporting: Do Poor South Africans Underestimate Their Health Needs?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-027, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
- Teresa Bago d'Uva & Eddy Van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O'Donnell, 2008.
"Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?,"
Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(3), pages 351-375, March.
- Teresa Bago d’Uva & Eddy Van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O’Donnell & Somnath Chatterji, 2006. "Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 06/03, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Teresa Bago d'Uva & Eddy van Doorslaer & Maarten Lindeboom & Owen O'Donnell & Somnath Chatterji, 2006. "Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 06-033/3, Tinbergen Institute.
- Knott, Rachel J. & Lorgelly, Paula K. & Black, Nicole & Hollingsworth, Bruce, 2017. "Differential item functioning in quality of life measurement: An analysis using anchoring vignettes," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 247-255.
- Pfarr, Christian & Schmid, Andreas & Schneider, Udo, 2011. "Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health among Elderly Europeans: The Impact of Mental and Physical Health Status," MPRA Paper 29900, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Johnston, David W. & Propper, Carol & Shields, Michael A., 2009.
"Comparing subjective and objective measures of health: Evidence from hypertension for the income/health gradient,"
Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 540-552, May.
- Propper, Carol & Shields, Michael & Johnston, David W, 2007. "Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient," CEPR Discussion Papers 6270, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- David W.Johnston & Carol Propper & Michael A.Shields, 2007. "Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 07/171, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
- Johnston, David W. & Propper, Carol & Shields, Michael A., 2007. "Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient," IZA Discussion Papers 2737, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- repec:dau:papers:123456789/13753 is not listed on IDEAS
- Ziebarth, Nicolas, 2010.
"Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity,"
Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(1), pages 116-124, July.
- Nicolas R. Ziebarth, 2009. "Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 211, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
- Florence Jusot & Sabine Mage & Marta Menendez, 2014.
"Inequality of Opportunity in Health in Indonesia,"
Working Papers
DT/2014/06, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
- Florence Jusot & Sabine Mage-Bertomeu & Marta Menéndez, 2017. "Inequality of Opportunity in Health in Indonesia," Working Papers hal-01507738, HAL.
- Valerii Baidin & Christopher J. Gerry & Maria Kaneva, 2021. "How Self-Rated is Self-Rated Health? Exploring the Role of Individual and Institutional Factors in Reporting Heterogeneity in Russia," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 675-696, June.
- William H. Greene & Mark N. Harris & Rachel J. Knott & Nigel Rice, 2021.
"Specification and testing of hierarchical ordered response models with anchoring vignettes,"
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 184(1), pages 31-64, January.
- Greene, W.H.; & Harris, M.N.; & Knott, R.; & Rice, N.;, 2019. "Specification and testing of hierarchical ordered response models with anchoring vignettes," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 19/18, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Bertoni, Marco, 2015. "Hungry today, unhappy tomorrow? Childhood hunger and subjective wellbeing later in life," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 40-53.
- Gabriella Berloffa & Francesca Paolini, 2019. "Decomposing Immigrant Differences in Physical and Mental Health: A 'Beyond the Mean' Analysis," DEM Working Papers 2019/4, Department of Economics and Management.
- David Johnston & Carol Propper & Stephen Pudney & Michael Shields, 2014.
"Child Mental Health And Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers And The Measurement Error Problem,"
Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(6), pages 880-900, September.
- David Johnston & Carol Propper & Stephen Pudney & Michael Shields, 2011. "Child mental health and educational attainment: multiple observers and the measurement error problem," CeMMAP working papers CWP27/11, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
- Johnston, David W. & Propper, Carol & Pudney, Stephen & Shields, Michael A., 2011. "Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem," IZA Discussion Papers 5874, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Pudney, Stephen & David, Johnston & Propper, Carol & Shields, Michael, 2011. "Child mental health and educational attainment: multiple observers and the measurement error problem," ISER Working Paper Series 2011-20, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
- David Johnston & Carol Propper & Stephen Pudney & Michael Shields, 2011. "Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 11/264, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
- Zhang, Hao & Bago d’Uva, Teresa & van Doorslaer, Eddy, 2015. "The gender health gap in China: A decomposition analysis," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 13-26.
- Aparajita Dasgupta, 2018.
"Systematic measurement error in self-reported health: is anchoring vignettes the way out?,"
IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-30, December.
- Dasgupta, Aparajita, 2014. "Systematic Measurement Error in Self-Reported Health: Is anchoring vignettes the way out?," MPRA Paper 58722, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Franco Peracchi & Claudio Rossetti, 2012. "Heterogeneity in health responses and anchoring vignettes," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 42(2), pages 513-538, April.
- Héctor Pifarré i Arolas & Christian Dudel, 2019.
"An Ordinal Measure of Population Health,"
Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 143(3), pages 1219-1243, June.
- Héctor Pifarré i Arolas & Christian Dudel, 2017. "An ordinal measure of population health," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2017-010, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
- Molina, Teresa, 2017. "Adjusting for heterogeneous response thresholds in cross-country comparisons of self-reported health," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 10(C), pages 1-20.
More about this item
Keywords
self-assessed health; vignettes; health measurement; inequality; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2017-03-26 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2017-03-26 (Health Economics)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20170031. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tinbergen Office +31 (0)10-4088900 (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/tinbenl.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.