Decomposing social indicators using distributional data (English)

Are the poor less healthy? Does public health spending matter more to them? The authors decompose aggregate health indicators using a random coefficients model in which the aggregates are regressed on the population distribution by subgroups, taking account of the statistical properties of the error term and allowing for other determinants of health status, including public health spending. This also allows them to test possible determinants of the...

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Bidani,Benu;

Ravallion,Martin;
Document Date
1995/07/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS1487
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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2010/07/01
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Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
Keywords
public health

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Bidani,Benu; Ravallion,Martin.

Decomposing social indicators using distributional data (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1487 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/649051468766539909

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