Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques
Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2006

Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France

Fabrice Etilé
Carine Milcent

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This paper tests for income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health (SAH). It also constructs a synthetic measure of clinical health to decompose the effect of income on SAH into an effect on clinical health (which is called a health production effect) and a reporting heterogeneity effect. We find health production effects essentially for low-income individuals, and reporting heterogeneity for the choice between the medium labels i.e. "fair" vs. "good" and for high-income individuals. As such, SAH should be used cautiously for the assessment of income-related health inequalities in France. It is however possible to minimize the reporting heterogeneity bias by converting SAH into a binary variable for poor health versus other health statuses.
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halshs-00754133 , version 1 (03-05-2011)
halshs-00754133 , version 2 (10-01-2019)

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Fabrice Etilé, Carine Milcent. Income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health: evidence from France. 2006. ⟨halshs-00754133v1⟩
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