title: Education-related inequity in healthcare with heterogeneous reporting of health.
abstract: Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in healthcare utilization. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity that is identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that instrumenting self-rated health shifts the distribution of visits to a doctor in the direction of inequality favouring the better educated. There is a further, and typically larger, shift in the same direction when correction is made for the tendency of the better educated to rate their health more negatively.
authors.affiliation: Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Teresa Bago
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: d'Uva
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindeboom
authors.forename: Owen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Eddy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Doorslaer