Education-related inequity in healthcare with heterogeneous reporting of health

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 639-664

  Bago d'Uva, Teresa ^a   Lindeboom, Maarten ^b   O'Donnell, Owen ^b,c   van Doorslaer, Eddy ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Equity; Health; Healthcare; Reporting heterogeneity; Vignettes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960014186     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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