Socio-economic determinants of mortality in Taiwan: Combining individual and aggregate data

Health Policy

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-36

  Leon Gonzalez, Roberto ^a,b   Tseng, Fu Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation bias; Mortality; Relative income hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INCOME; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAIWAN;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 78649942404     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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