What Kind of Inequality Do You Prefer? Evaluating Measures of Income and Health Inequality Using Choice Experiments
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Keywords
Socioeconomic inequality in health; Income inequality; Extended concentration index; S-Gini index; Distributional preferences;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2019-05-06 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2019-05-06 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2019-05-06 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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