Socioeconomic inequalities in health: Measurement, computation, and statistical inference

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-103

  Kakwani, Nanak ^a   Wagstaff, Adam ^b   Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concentration index; Socioeconomic inequality; Standard errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002674812     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(96)01807-6     Document Type: Article

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