Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

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Davillas, Apostolos and Jones, Andrew M. (2020) Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers. Journal of Health Economics, 69. ISSN 0167-6296

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Abstract

We use a set of biomarkers to measure inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the risk of major chronic conditions in the UK. Applying a direct ex ante IOp approach, we find that inequalities in biomarkers attributed to circumstances account for a non-trivial part of the total variation. For example, observed circumstances account for 20 % of the total inequalities in our composite measure of multi-system health risk, allostatic load. We propose an extension to the decomposition of ex ante IOp to complement the mean-based approach, analysing the contribution of circumstances across the quantiles of the biomarker distributions. Shapley decompositions show that, for most of the biomarkers, the percentage contribution of socioeconomic circumstances (education and childhood socioeconomic status), relative to differences attributable to age and gender, increase towards the right tail of the biomarker distribution, where health risks are more pronounced.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	biomarkers,equality of opportunity,non-communicable diseases,shapley decomposition,unconditional quantile regression,c-reactive protein,allostatic load,mortality,adult health,cumulative biological risk,equality,cardiovascular-disease,gender,socioeconomic-status,age,public health, environmental and occupational health,health(social science),economics, econometrics and finance(all),health policy,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/152313/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2020 05:09
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 00:23
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73986
DOI:	10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102251

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