Owen O’Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Demography - Volume 46, Number 4, November 2009
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow
This volume is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. The fi ndings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this volume do not...
Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer
We are grateful to Naoko Watanabe for help on work leading up to this paper, and to participants at a seminar at the World Bank for helpful comments on earlier related work. The findings,...
Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias The Measurement of Health Disparities? (2006)
Uva, Teresa Bago D', Doorslaer, Eddy Van, Lindeboom, Maarten, Donnell, Owen O', Chatterji, Somnath
Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify reporting...
The OECD experience in the quest for equitable health care systems: lessons for Australia (2005)
Most OECD member countries have long achieved close to universal coverage of their population for a fairly comprehensive package of essential health services. There are exceptions, but in most...
The OECD experience in the quest for equitable health care systems: lessons for Australia (2005)
Most OECD member countries have long achieved close to universal coverage of their population for a fairly comprehensive package of essential health services. There are exceptions, but in most...
Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health (2003)
Lindeboom, Maarten, Doorslaer, Eddy Van
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and...
Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?
Teresa Bago D'Uva, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Maarten Lindeboom, Owen O'Donnell, Somnath Chatterji
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Health Economics, 2008, 17(3), 351-75).
Health Effects of Child Work: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Owen A O'Donnell, Furio C. Rosati, Eddy Van Doorslaer
We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work worldwide. Data are from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, 1992-93 and 1997-98....
Tom Van Ourti, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman
Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health inequalities. We show that, theoretically, both aims can be reconciled only under very...
The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare: Comparative Evidence from Asia
Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Deni Harbianto, ...
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz...
Are Urban Children really healthier?
Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating...
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Philip Clarke, Elizabeth Savage, Jane Hall
Recent OECD country comparative evidence suggests that Australia?s mixed public-private health system does a good job in ensuring high and fairly equal access to doctor, hospital and dental care...
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Erik Schokkaert
The effects of cost sharing on the demand for ambulatory care in experimental circumstances are well understood since the Rand Health Insurance Experiment (HIE). However, in a non-experimental...
Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993-1998
Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer
This paper presents and compares two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of health care payments, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre-specified proportion of pre-payment...
Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer
This paper outlines a framework for comparing empirically overall health inequality and socioeconomic health inequality. The framework, which is developed for both individual-level data and grouped...
On the interpretation of a concentration index of inequality
Xander Koolman, Eddy Van Doorslaer
This paper aims to add a more intuitive understanding to the concept of a concentration index for measuring relative inequality with an application of health-related measures by income. A new...
Income-related inequality in health and health care in the European Union
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Andrew M. Jones
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Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countries
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman
This paper provides new evidence on the sources of differences in the degree of income-related inequalities in self-assessed health in 13 European Union member states. It goes beyond earlier work by...
Explaining income-related inequalities in doctor utilisation in Europe
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman, Andrew M. Jones
This paper presents new international comparative evidence on the factors driving inequalities in the use of GP and specialist services in 12 EU member states. The data are taken from the 1996 wave...
Measurement of Horizontal Inequity in Health Care Utilisation using European Panel Data
Teresa Bago D'Uva, Andrew M. Jones, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilization is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using...
Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilisation using European Panel data
Teresa Bago D’Uva, Andrew M. Jones, Eddy Van Doorslaer
This paper analyzes the effect of dental insurance on utilization of general dentist services by adult US population aged from 25 to 64 years. Our econometric framework accommdates endogeneity of...
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?
Teresa Bago D’Uva, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Maarten Lindeboom, Owen O’Donnell, Somnath Chatterji
Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. Responses to anchoring vignettes have been proposed as...
Owen O'Donnell, Ángel López Nicolás, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We...
Wagstaff, Adam, Doorslaer, Eddy Van
The authors compare egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) and minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed...
Health and Wealth: Empirical Findings and Political Consequences
Andrew M. Jones, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Teresa Bago D'Uva, Silvia Balia, Lynn Gambin, Cristina Hernández Quevedo, ...
There is increasing concern that equity in health and health care in Europe may suffer as a result of the expansion of the European Union and the ageing of its populations. This article reviews the...
What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality — Household or Community Characteristics?
Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the...
Health and Income across the Life Cycle and Generations in Europe
Hans Van Kippersluis, Tom Van Ourti, Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across...
Economic Evaluations of Varicella Vaccination Programmes: A Review of the Literature
Nancy Thiry, Philippe Beutels, Pierre Van Damme, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Chickenpox infections are generally mild but due to their very high incidence among healthy children they give rise to considerable morbidity and occasional mortality. With the development of a...
Nancy Thiry, Philippe Beutels, Pierre Van Damme, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Chickenpox, Cost-analysis, Herpes-zoster, Varicella-vaccines
Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia
Eddy Van Doorslaer, Owen O'Donnell, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Charu C. Garg, ...
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries...
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?
Teresa Bago D'Uva, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Maarten Lindeboom, Owen O'Donnell
Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify...
Equity in health and health care in a decentralised context: evidence from Canada
Dolores Jiménez-Rubio, Peter C. Smith, Eddy Van Doorslaer
The impact of administrative decentralisation on equity in health and health care is an important unresolved issue in the health policy debate. Predictions from the limited theoretical literature and...
Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health
Maarten Lindeboom, Eddy Van Doorslaer
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and...
What Makes the Personal Income Tax Progressive? A Comparative Analysis for Fifteen OECD Countries
Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer
In this paper, we explore the roles of tax credits, rate structures, allowances and deductions in determining the overall progressivity of net income tax liabilities in fifteen OECD countries. Three...
Health effects of child work: Evidence from rural Vietnam
Owen O'Donnell, Furio C. Rosati, Eddy Van Doorslaer
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Income-Related Inequality in the Use of Medical Care in 21 OECD Countries
Cristina Masseria, Eddy Van Doorslaer
This study updates and extends a previous study on equity in physician utilisation for a subset of the countries analyzed here (Van Doorslaer, Koolman and Puffer, 2002). It updates results to 2000...
Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Asia: Catastrophic and Poverty Impact
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. The paper describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14...
Can subjective survival expectations explain retirement behaviour?
Owen O'Donnell, Federica Teppa, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Theory predicts a number of mechanisms through which survival expectations influence retirement decisions: a wealth effect of a longer lifespan; an uncertainty effect through the return on savings; a...
Gillian E. Hanley, Steve Morgan, Jeremiah Hurley, Eddy Van Doorslaer
In May, 2003, British Columbia transitioned from an age-based public drug program, with public subsidy primarily based on age, to an age-irrelevant income-based drug program, in which public subsidy...
Gabriela Flores, Jaya Krishnakumar, Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
In the absence of formal health insurance, we argue that the strategies households adopt to finance health care have important implications for the measurement and interpretation of how health...
Health, Financial Incentives and Retirement in Spain
Esen Erdogan-Ciftci, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Angel Lopez-Nicolas
We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using...
Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?
Hans Van Kippersluis, Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws...
Teresa Bago D'Uva, Maarten Lindeboom, Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving...