Composition and decomposition in US gender-specific self-reported health disparities, 1984-2007

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 477-488

  Zheng, Hui ^a   Land, Kenneth C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Between group disparities; Compositional effects; Demographic decomposition; Gender; Health disparities; Self reported health; SES demographic effects; Variance function regression; Within group disparities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856347108     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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