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| Title: | | Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health  |
| Authors: | | Lindeboom, Maarten van Doorslaer, Eddy |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1286 |
| Abstract: | | There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered response models which allows us to distinguish between cut-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National Population Health Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility Index (HUI) is used as a more objective health measure than the simple 5-point scale of self-assessed health. We find clear evidence of index shifting and cut-point shifting for age and gender, but not for income, education or language. |
| Subjects: | | hierarchical ordered probit health measurement cut-point shift index shift Canada |
| JEL: | | I12 I10 D31 D30 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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