Search Results - "van Doorslaer, Eddy"

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What Explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality: Household or Community Characteristics?

by Ellen van de Poel Owen O'Donnell Eddy van Doorslaer Published in Demography (01.11.2009)

“...The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained by using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the contribution of unobserved...”

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What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality: household or community characteristics?

by Van de Poel, Ellen O'Donnell, Owen Van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Demography (01.11.2009)

“...The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained by using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the contribution of unobserved...”

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Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998

by Wagstaff, Adam Doorslaer, Eddy van Published in Health economics (01.11.2003)

“...This paper presents and compares two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of health care payments, one requiring that payments do not exceed a...”

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The effects of performance incentives on the utilization and quality of maternal and child care in Burundi

by Bonfrer, Igna Van de Poel, Ellen Van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01.12.2014)

“...Africa's progress towards the health related Millennium Development Goals remains limited. This can be partly explained by inadequate performance of health...”

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Coping with health‐care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty

by Flores, Gabriela Krishnakumar, Jaya O'Donnell, Owen van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Health economics (01.12.2008)

“...In the absence of formal health insurance, we argue that the strategies households adopt to finance health care have important implications for the measurement...”

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Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health

by Lindeboom, Maarten van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Journal of health economics (2004)

“...There is some concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting...”

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Explaining income-related inequalities in doctor utilisation in Europe

by van Doorslaer, E Koolman, A.H.E Jones, A.M Published in Health economics (01.07.2004)

“...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...”

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Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countries

by van Doorslaer, Eddy Koolman, A.H.E Published in Health economics (01.07.2004)

“...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...”

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The wear and tear on health: What is the role of occupation?

by Ravesteijn, Bastian Kippersluis, Hans van Doorslaer, Eddy van Published in Health economics (01.02.2018)

“...Summary Health is well known to show a clear gradient by occupation. Although it may appear evident that occupation can affect health, there are multiple...”

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Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries

by Van de Poel, Ellen O’Donnell, Owen Van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (2007)

“...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...”

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Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?

by Bago d’Uva, T van Doorslaer, E Lindeboom, M O’Donnell, O Published in Health economics (2008)

“...Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use...”

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Long-Term and Spillover Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Income

by Pilar García-Gómez Hans van Kippersluis Owen O'Donnell Eddy van Doorslaer Published in The Journal of human resources (01.10.2013)

“...We use matching combined with difference-in-differences to identify the causal effects of sudden illness, represented by acute hospitalizations, on employment...”

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On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam

by Wagstaff, Adam van Doorslaer, Eddy Watanabe, Naoko Published in Journal of econometrics (2003)

“...Inequalities across the income distribution in a variable y can be decomposed into their causes, and changes in inequality in y can be decomposed into the...”

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Long-run returns to education: Does schooling lead to an extended old age?

by Kippersluis, Hans van O'Donnell, Owen Van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in The Journal of human resources (2011)

“..."While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not firmly established. We...”

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Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data

by van Doorslaer, Eddy Gerdtham, Ulf-G Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (2003)

“...This paper empirically addresses two questions using a large, individual-level Swedish data set which links mortality data to health survey data. The first...”

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Determinants of long-term care spending: Age, time to death or disability?

by de Meijer, Claudine Koopmanschap, Marc d’ Uva, Teresa Bago van Doorslaer, Eddy Published in Journal of health economics (2011)

“...In view of population aging, better understanding of what drives long-term care expenditure (LTCE) is warranted. Time-to-death (TTD) has commonly been used to...”

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Inequalities in self-reported health: validation of a new approach to measurement

by Doorslaer, Eddy van Jones, Andrew M Published in Journal of health economics (2003)

“...This paper assesses the internal validity of using the McMaster ‘Health Utility Index Mark III’ (HUI) to scale the responses on the typical self-assessed...”

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