Topic and Abstract: Inequalities in Ex-post Opportunities for the Health of Our Older People - New Evidence from Three Equal Opportunity Frameworks
Based on data from the 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2018 China Health and Aging Tracking Survey (CHALRS) and the 2014 CHARLS Life Course Survey, Nie Peng measured the relative contributions of health inequalities and environmental, effort, and demographic characteristics factors among older adults in three contexts: Barrv, Roemer, and Swift, respectively, and explored their trends and causes. The results showed that the overall inequalities in adaptive load and self-rated health under the three frameworks were around 0.039 and 0.065, respectively, and the relative contributions of environment and effort to the inequalities in adaptive load were 51.57-53.37% and 28.88-30.88 %, and to the self-rated health, 58.62-66.45% and 31.02-39.09%, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between the three contextual measures. Overall inequality in health among the elderly declined from 2011 to 2018, inequality of opportunity in self-assessed health declined, and inequality of opportunity in adapting to the load increased. The region of birth, childhood health and nutrition, and the socioeconomic status of the family constitute the main sources of inequality of opportunity for adaptive load and self-assessed health.
Speaker Profile: Nie Peng
Nie Peng has a PhD in Economics from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, and is currently a Professor at the School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing Health and Geriatrics at the Institute of Global Health. His main research area is health economics. His research has been published in Energy Economics, China Economic Review, Review of Income and Wealth and other economics journals, and his collaborative research has been published in Nature, Nature Medicine and other scientific journals. He has led several international and national projects, including those of the European Union, the World Bank and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Currently, he is a board member of the China Intergenerational Mobility Research Forum, a member of the Youth Health Economics Committee of the Chinese Society of Health Economics and the Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Committee of the Chinese Society of Health Informatics on Big Data in Healthcare, an associate editor of The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, an editorial board member of the of BMC Geriatrics and BMC Public Health, and anonymous reviewer for nearly 100 international journals, including PNAS, BMJ, Journal of Population Economics, etc.
Host: Professor Ma Yuanyuan
Researcher of IIDPF
Director of Centre for International Exchange and Cooperation
Conference Information
Time: 28 December 2023 (Thursday) 10:00-11:00 am
Venue: Conference Room 119, Wenqin Building