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EVENT: Economics Research Seminar

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Today's date is Monday, July 07, 2025
Economics Research Seminar : Robust Wagstaff Orderings of Distributions of Self-Reported Health Status Other events...
Abstract- When assessing socioeconomic health inequalities researchers often draw upon measures of income inequality that were developed for ratio scale variables. As a result, the use of categorical data, such as self-reported health status, produces rankings that may be arbitrary and contingent to the scaling adopted. In this paper, we develop a method that overcomes this problem by providing conditions for which these rankings are invariant to the scaling function chosen by the researcher. In doing so, we draw on the insight provided by Alkire and Foster 2004 and extend their method to the dimension of socioeconomic inequality exploiting the properties of Wagstaffs class of indices. We then provide an empirical illustration using the National Institute of Health Survey 2012.
Speaker(s) Professor Paul Makdissi - University of Ottawa
Location BUSN101 Don Voelte and Nancy Keegan Case Study Room
Contact Dr Leandro Magnusson <[email protected]> : 6488 2924
Start Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:00
End Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:15
Submitted by Anna Wiechecki <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:15
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