A Modeling Approach to Decomposing Changes in Health Concentration Curves
GB 403, Beirut campus
As part of the Economics and Public Policy Seminar Series, the Department of Economics invites you to attend a presentation titled:
A Modeling Approach to Decomposing Changes in Health Concentration Curves
Presenter’s Name: Dr. Paul Makdissi
Abstract
This paper proposes a decomposition approach for health concentration curves. Decomposing changes in health concentration curves gives additional insight compared to decomposing a single index such as the health concentration index. First, the results would be valid for a comprehensive set of indices. Second, and more importantly, it allows for identifying heterogeneous effects along socioeconomic ranks. We use inverse propensity weighting for the overall decomposition. We use multiple recentered influence function regressions on a grid of points to identify the impact of specific covariates. We weight these regressions by the inverse propensity score of the observations to correct for errors due to departure from linearity. The paper also derives the expressions of the recentered influence functions of the relative and absolute health concentration curves since the literature does not offer the expression of these recentered influence functions. We offer an empirical illustration using information on cigarette consumption from the National Health Interview Survey of 2000 and 2020.
About the Speaker
Paul Makdissi is a Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Ottawa. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Previously he has held positions at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His main research areas are socioeconomic health inequality measurement, the distributive impact of taxation and public pricing, and income inequality measurement. He has published many articles in international refereed journals such as International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Social Choice and Welfare, and Social Science and Medicine. He was the president of the Société Canadienne de science Économique (the French Canadian Economics Association) for the 2021-2022 academic year. He is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (ERF).
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