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Health Inequalities Among Danish Retirees 2004-2022 / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, Alexander O.K. Marin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bingley, Paul.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w35165.
- NBER working paper series no. w35165
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2026.
- Summary:
- Using Danish SHARE data from 2004-2022, we examine income gradients in health among retirees ages 60-79 across functional, diagnosed, comprehensive, mental, and cognitive domains. Higher-income retirees are healthier across all dimensions, but the evolution of inequality differs across measures. Functional and comprehensive health gaps narrow over time because lower-income retirees improve, whereas mental health gaps remain large and persistent. Diagnosed and cognitive health show smaller, less stable gradients. Overall, health inequality at older ages is substantial but not uniform: physical health disparities compress, while mental health disparities show no sign of convergence.
- Notes:
- May 2026.
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