Costa-i-Font, Joan 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919, Hernandez-Quevedo, Christina and Sato, Azusa
(2013)
A 'Health Kuznets' curve'? Cross-country and longitudinal evidence.
CESifo working paper (4446).
CESifo Group, Munich, Germany.
Abstract
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets’ curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities in health. We draw upon two rich datasets and we use two measures of health, self -reported health and Body Mass Index (BMI). Our results are suggestive of a socioeconomic health Kuznets' curve on self-reported health but not on BMI. We find robust evidence of both cross country and time series heterogeneity which display a turning point of GDP per capita varying between US $26,000 -38,200.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/ifoH... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Authors |
| Divisions: | European Institute Social Policy Centre for Economic Performance LSE Health |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I30 - General O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2013 15:20 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54281 |
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