TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Duclos, Jean-Yves
AU  - Échevin, Damien
        TI  - Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
        PY  - 2009/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4506
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4506
        AB  - This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper’s approach is more general than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper also finds that welfare for both Canadians and Americans has not unambiguously improved during the last decade over the joint distribution of income and health, in spite of the fact that the uni-dimensional distributions of income have clearly improved during that period.
        KW  - stochastic dominances
KW  - income distribution
KW  - self-reported health status
KW  - health inequality
KW  - social welfare
        ER  -