Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS

, like much of the Western world have concerns about the ageing of the population and early exit of older workers from the labour market. Policy debates have focused on direct changes to retirement ages and incentives to encourage greater pension saving. Less attention has been paid to the role of health. We use hazard models applied to longitudinal data from Britain and Germany to estimate the effect of health on early retirement among men. Our results show that health is a key determinant, and its effect is large compared to that of other variables, including the type of pension an individual has access to.

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“…39 See Contoyannis et al (2004). 40 See Jones and Wildman (2008). 41 See Hernandez-Quevedo et al (2005).…”

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Early Retirement Among Men in Britain and Germany: How Important is Health?

Roberts

Rice

Jones

2010

Geneva Pap Risk Insur Issues Pract

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“…One study of particular interestg is by Jones and Wildman (2008) who use rich data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine the effect of relative deprivation on self-reported health. A key feature of this study is that they use the longitudinal properties of the data to control for the potential influence of persistent unobserved individual confounders.…”

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“…The most convincing studies to date have instead relied on panel data to control for unobserved factors that may correlate with inequality and health (see e.g. Jones and Wildman 2008;Mellor and Milyo 2002).…”

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Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

Grönqvist

Johansson

Niknami

2012

Journal of Health Economics

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“…His results supported the supposition that income did determine health. Jones and Wildman (2008) appear to have found a similar result using current income and its effect on health, but to a much smaller degree in a similar British population. Smith (2004) using US data, however, does not establish such a link.…”

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Persistence despite action? Measuring the patterns of health inequality in England (1997–2007)

Font¹,

Hernández-Quevedo²,

McGuire³

2011

Health Policy

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All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieve system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data AbstractThe persistence of inequalities in health is a major policy concern in England, which was addressed by the new Labour government in 1997 through prioritising the curtailment of health inequalities as a policy goal. However, whether specific interventions have managed to attain their goals is a question for empirical welfare analysis to elucidate. This paper addresses two related questions: first, it empirically examines the dynamic patterns of inequalities in health in England from 1997 to 2007 by estimating concentration indexes of inequality over three measures of health, namely self-reported health, long standing illness and health limitations, calculated across different years of the Health Survey for England. Second, using regression-based decomposition analysis, we explore whether specifically prioritised areas (so-called "spearhead" local authority areas ranked in the bottom fifth on national health indicators) exhibit a different pattern of inequality in the years following a targeted intervention in 2005. Results suggest that patterns of health inequalities in England exhibit moderate variation from 1997 to 2007, although some improvement in self-assessed health inequalities is found.Importantly, patterns of inequality in prioritised (spearhead) areas are not found to be significantly different than health inequalities in non-spearhead areas.JEL codes: I12, C21

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Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS

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Early Retirement Among Men in Britain and Germany: How Important is Health?

Early Retirement Among Men in Britain and Germany: How Important is Health?

Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

Persistence despite action? Measuring the patterns of health inequality in England (1997–2007)

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