Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126296 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/017
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We present a unified structural equation modelling framework for the regression-based decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural equation modelling framework forms the basis for a proper use of the most prominent one- and two-dimensional decompositions and provides an argument for using the bivariate multiple regression model for two-dimensional decomposition. Within the structural equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and socioeconomic status and allows for different sets of determinants of these variables. We illustrate the structural equation modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey.
Subjects: 
inequality measurement
Concentration Index
decomposition methods
structural equation modelling
JEL: 
C36
D63
I00
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-902-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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