TY - RPRT AU - Ziebarth, Nicolas R. AU - Frick, Joachim R. TI - Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the PY - 2010/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 4787 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4787 AB - We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using objective health measures. KW - concentration index KW - income measurement KW - health inequality KW - SOEP ER -