This paper proposes and discusses two different approaches to the definition of inequality in health: the ex-ante and the ex-post approach. It proposes strategies for measuring inequality of opportunity in health based on the path-independent Atkinson equality index. The proposed methodology is illustrated using data from the British Household Panel Survey; the results suggest that in the period 2000–2005, at least one-third of the observed health equalities in the UK were equalities of opportunity.
Li Donni, P., Pignataro, G., Peragine, V. (2014). Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of equality of opportunity in health: a normative decomposition. HEALTH ECONOMICS, 23, 182-198 [10.1002/hec.2908].
Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of equality of opportunity in health: a normative decomposition
LI DONNI, Paolo;
2014-01-01
Abstract
This paper proposes and discusses two different approaches to the definition of inequality in health: the ex-ante and the ex-post approach. It proposes strategies for measuring inequality of opportunity in health based on the path-independent Atkinson equality index. The proposed methodology is illustrated using data from the British Household Panel Survey; the results suggest that in the period 2000–2005, at least one-third of the observed health equalities in the UK were equalities of opportunity.
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