Healthy ageing for all? A health growth incidence curve approach

Vincenzo Carrieri, Andrew Michael Jones, Francesco Principe, Maria Maddelena Speziali

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Abstract

We propose and apply a framework that analyses the distributional impact of episodes of overall health growth or decline. We use local smoothing to model the relationship between health outcomes and relative income rank and we introduce Health Growth Incidence Curves (HGIC) to graph the rate of change of health outcomes across the income distribution. We illustrate our framework with an analysis of the distributional dynamics of health and well-being among those aged 60–85 in the years 2004 and 2015 using pooled SHARE data for selected European countries. Overall we observe a pattern that favours individuals with higher socioeconomic status, with a pro-rich distribution of improvements in outcomes. Only cognitive capacity growth has been uniform across income groups.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages11
JournalOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Early online date1 Feb 2025
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 1 Feb 2025

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