title: Welfare-related health inequality: does the choice of measure matter?
abstract: Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we show that the welfare measure choice has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. To assess the sensitivity of welfare-related health inequality measures, we combine a unique set of income and wealth measures with different subjective, cardinalized, and (quasi-)objective health measures. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using (quasi-)objective health measures.
authors.affiliation: DIW Berlin, Socio-Economic Panel Study, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Joachim R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Frick
authors.forename: Nicolas R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Ziebarth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006304:Health Status; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011632:Public Assistance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors