Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents
In: Social science & medicine, Band 340, S. 116474
ISSN: 1873-5347
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In: Social science & medicine, Band 340, S. 116474
ISSN: 1873-5347
In: Journal of income distribution: an international journal of social economics
This article presents a simple non-polynomial spline that may be used to construct Lorenz curves from grouped data. The spline is naturally convex and works by determining a series of piecewise segments that may be joined to give a smooth and continuous Lorenz curve. The method is illustrated with an empirical example using income decile data from the Philippines from 1991-2003 where the proposed technique is used alongside other parametric and non-parametric methods. We also use the spline to approximate some known Lorenz curves and assess the technique by comparing the estimated Gini coefficient to the known Gini. Our findings suggest that the method is an attractive addition to the body of techniques used for developing Lorenz curves from grouped data.
In: Social indicators research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, Band 114, Heft 2, S. 591-605
ISSN: 1573-0921
In: Review of Income and Wealth, Band 64, Heft 3, S. 576-591
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In: JEBO-D-21-01781
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In: Social indicators research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, Band 174, Heft 3, S. 1053-1100
ISSN: 1573-0921
AbstractThis paper studies factors explaining the gender mental health gap using Australian data. We show that men have significantly higher mean outcomes and the left tail of the combined distribution is disproportionately female. Using regression-based decompositions, we examine the degree that both socioeconomic inequalities and life experience account for this phenomenon. We find that disparities in income play a substantial role, and subject to an assumption of exogeneity, would be enough to account for the gender gap amongst individuals with very poor psychological wellbeing. We also examine the mental health effects of various negative life experience, such as the death of a family member or being a victim of violence. At the individual level, these variables have large effect sizes but are not strongly correlated with gender to explain our mental health disparities.
In: Applied research in quality of life: the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 853-869
ISSN: 1871-2576
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In: Springer eBook Collection
Part I Productivity Measurement -- 1. Productivity Measurement – Past, Present and Future -- 2. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-) Additivity, and Misallocation -- 3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models using Popular Statistical Softwares -- 4. Efficiency and Productivity Analysis from a System Perspective: Historical Overview -- Part II Income Distributions and Inequality and Insecurity -- 5. Modelling Income Distributions with Limited Data -- 6. Empirical Methods for Modelling Economic Insecurity -- 7. Measuring Inequality in Health -- 8. Inequality of Opportunity:Theoretical Considerations and Recent Empirical Evidence -- Part III Index Numbers and International Comparisons of Prices and Real Expenditures -- 9. Framing Measurement Beyond GDP -- 10. Hedonic Models and House Price Index Numbers -- 11. Scanner Data, Elementary Price Indexes and the Chain Drift Problem -- 12. The Stochastic Approach to International Price Comparisons -- 13. Inconsistencies in Cross-country Price Comparisons Over Time: Patterns and Facts.
In: Economics letters, Band 227, S. 111129
ISSN: 0165-1765
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 17223
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