Seminar

Hybrid seminar: "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle" joint with Kaveh Danesh (UC Berkeley), Jon Kolstad (UC Berkeley) and Will Parket (LSE) (with drinks between 16:00PM-17:00PM)

On Monday November 27th, 2023, Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE) will give a presentation titled: "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle" joint with Kaveh Danesh (UC Berkeley), Jon Kolstad (UC Berkeley) and Will Parket (LSE) (with drinks between 16:00PM-17:00PM)." To attend this seminar, please send an e-mail to Simone Pailer (S.Pailer@cpb.nl). You will be registered at the reception or will receive a Webex invitation via Outlook.

Date
November 27, 2023
Time
15:00 - 17:00
Location
CPB, Room "Zeedistelzaal", Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, The Hague, and online (Webex). To attend this seminar, please send an e-mail to Simone Pailer (S.Pailer@cpb.nl). You will be registered at the reception or will receive a Webex invitation via Outlook
Presentation
Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE)
Discussant
Mark Kattenberg (CPB)
Working language
English

“Prior work has documented an important negative relationship between income and mortality (e.g. Chetty, et al., 2016). We study the contributing factors using rich administrative population-wide data in the Netherlands. We develop a chronic condition index predicting late-in-life mortality and use it to measure the mortality-weighted chronic illness burden over the life cycle. We demonstrate that the index explains one third of the gradient in mortality and all of the gradient in healthcare expenditures. Chronic illness deviates early in life with gaps commencing around age 20 and diverges further throughout adulthood. Already at age 30 the lowest income quintile has a “biological age” of 53. The mediating factors affecting chronic illness differ at different ages. Earlier in life, when much of the gap develops, geography and employment play a large role, while health behaviors have little impact.”

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