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SUMMARY:Johannes Spinnewijn - London School of Economics
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p><em><strong>The Chronic Disease Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Ove
 r the Lifecycle</strong></em></p><p>Abstract:</p><p style="text-align: just
 ify;">We study chronic illness to analyze the evolution of health inequalit
 ies over the life-cycle. Using rich administrative data in the Netherlands,
  we find that measurable chronic conditions explain about 30-40% of the mor
 tality gap between income groups at old age, but the gap in chronic illness
  already opens up in early adulthood. By age 35, the bottom 50% have exceed
 ed the chronic illness burden of 50-year olds in the top 50%. Leveraging ou
 r panel data, we show that low-income individuals develop chronic illness a
 t a faster rate and that chronically-ill individuals sort into lower income
  groups. Aggregated over the life-cycle, the ageing channel is about 50% mo
 re important than the sorting channel. Our analysis demonstrates the value 
 of health interventions that target the incidence of chronic conditions for
  low-income groups already earlier in life, before affecting mortality late
 r in life. Our analysis of mediating factors indicates the importance of lo
 cation relative to health behaviors, especially at younger ages.</p>
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