Education-related Inequity in Health Care with Heterogeneous Reporting of Health

Arbeitspapier

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that instrumenting self-rated health shifts the distribution of doctor visits in the direction of inequality favouring the better educated. There is a further, and typically larger, shift the same direction when correction is made for the tendency of the better educated to rate their health more negatively.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 10-122/3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions ; Classification Discontinued 2008. See C83. ; Health Behavior
• Subject: health care ; health ; equity ; reporting heterogeneity ; vignettes ; Gesundheitsversorgung ; Alte Menschen ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Bildungsniveau ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): d'Uva, Teresa Bago ; Lindeboom, Maarten ; O'Donnell, Owen ; van Doorslaer, Eddy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86955
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET