Carrieri, Vincenzo, Jones, Andrew Michael orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-1785, Principe, Francesco et al. (1 more author) (2025) Healthy ageing for all? A health growth incidence curve approach. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. ISSN 0305-9049
Abstract
We propose and apply a framework that analyses the distributional impact of episodes of overall health growth or decline. We use local smoothing to model the relationship between health outcomes and relative income rank and we introduce Health Growth Incidence Curves (HGIC) to graph the rate of change of health outcomes across the income distribution. We illustrate our framework with an analysis of the distributional dynamics of health and well-being among those aged 60–85 in the years 2004 and 2015 using pooled SHARE data for selected European countries. Overall we observe a pattern that favours individuals with higher socioeconomic status, with a pro-rich distribution of improvements in outcomes. Only cognitive capacity growth has been uniform across income groups.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics published by Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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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: | 08 Jan 2025 09:10 |
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2025 15:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12665 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/obes.12665 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221436 |
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