Socioeconomic Inequality in Health at Later Ages: An Artefact of Mortality Selection

Ashish Kumar Upadhyay , International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Study on the effect of mortality selection on socioeconomic inequalities in health over age is limited in developing countries. Firstly, using data from wave-1 of Study on Globing Ageing and Adult Health (2006-07) the study examined socioeconomic inequality in health over ages. If there is a convergence, then using follow-up data from wave-2 (2014-15) the study will examine whether convergence in health inequality is real or an artefact of mortality selection. Effect of mortality selection will be examined using hierarchal logit model and pseudo variable approach. Preliminary finding shows that socioeconomic inequality in health was more in early adulthood and converges at latter ages. Results of logistic regression analysis also shows that protective effect of being in higher socioeconomic group on health outcome were declined with age. Further, the effect of mortality selection on health convergence will be examined after release of wave-2 data of SAGE

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 Presented in Session 132. Biodemography of Aging