Carrieri, Vincenzo and Jones, Andrew Michael orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-1785 (2017) The Income-Health Relationship “Beyond the Mean”:New Evidence from Biomarkers. Health Economics. pp. 937-956. ISSN 1057-9230
Abstract
The relationship between income and health is one of the most explored topics in health economics but less is known about this relationship at different points of the health distribution. Analysis based solely on the mean may miss important information in other parts of the distribution. This is especially relevant when clinical concern is focused on the tail of the distribution and when evaluating the income gradient at different points of the distribution and decomposing income-related inequalities in health is of interest. We use the unconditional quantile regression approach to analyse the income gradient across the entire distribution of objectively measured blood-based biomarkers. We apply an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition at various quantiles of the biomarker distributions to analyse gender differentials in biomarkers and to measure the contribution of income (and other covariates) to these differentials. Using data from the Health Survey for England we find a non-linear relationship between income and health and a strong gradient with respect to income at the highest quantiles of the biomarker distributions. We find that there is heterogeneity in the association of health to income across genders which accounts for a substantial percentage of the gender differentials in observed health.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2016 09:17 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3372 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/hec.3372 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103068 |
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