TY - JOUR A1 - Jones, Andrew M. AU - López Nicolás, Ángel T1 - Allowing for heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of inequality in health Y1 - 2006 SN - 1569-1721 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1182 AB - This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an application to the GHQ measure of psychological well-being taken from the British Household Panel Survey. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and genders which, in turn, accounts for a substantial percentage of the inequality in observed health. KW - Economía Aplicada KW - Análisis de descomposición KW - Desigualdades en salud KW - Heterogeneidad KW - Datos de panel KW - Decomposition analysis KW - Health inequalities KW - Heterogeneity KW - Panel data LA - eng PB - Springer Netherlands ER -