Calculating the concentration index when income is grouped

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 151-157

  Clarke, Philip ^a   Van Ourti, Tom ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Concentration index; Errors in variables; First order correction; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOTE;

EID: 77049087768     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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