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ToolsMorciano, Marcello, Hancock, Ruth and Pudney, Stephen (2015) Disability costs and equivalence scales in the older population in Great Britain. Review of Income and Wealth, 61 (3). 494–514. ISSN 0034-6586
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Abstract
We use a standard of living (SoL) approach to estimate older people's disability costs, using data on 8000 individuals from the U.K. Family Resources Survey. We extend previous research in two ways. First, by allowing for a more flexible relationship between SoL and income, the structure of the estimated disability cost and equivalence scale is not dictated by a restrictive functional form assumption. Second, we allow for the latent nature of disability and SoL, addressing measurement error in the disability and SoL indicators in surveys. We find that disability costs are strongly related to severity of disability, and vary with income in absolute and proportionate terms. Older people above the median disability level require an extra £99 per week (2007 prices) on average to reach the SoL of an otherwise similar person at the median. Costs faced by older people in the highest decile of disability average £180.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors. Review of Income and Wealth published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | c81,d10,i10,costs of disability,disability indexes,equivalence scale,standard of living,structural equation modeling |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2014 20:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 06:14 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48281 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/roiw.12108 |
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