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Correcting the concentration index
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Abstract
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| In recent years attention has been drawn to several shortcomings of the Concentration Index, a frequently used indicator of the socioeconomic inequality of health. Some modifications have been suggested, but these are only partial remedies. This paper proposes a corrected version of the Concentration Index which is superior to the original Concentration Index and its variants, in the sense that it is a rank-dependent indicator which satisfies four key requirements (transfer, level independence, cardinal invariance, and mirror). The paper also shows howthe corrected Concentration Index can be decomposed and generalized |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of health economics. - Amsterdam, 1982, currens
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Publication
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Amsterdam
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2009
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ISSN
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0167-6296
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1879-1646
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DOI
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10.1016/J.JHEALECO.2008.02.003
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Volume/pages
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28
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(2009)
, p. 504-515
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ISI
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000264949000018
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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