Inequality of opportunity in health: a decomposition approach

This seminar will discuss joint work with Vincenzo Carrieri (University of Salerno) presenting a decomposition-based approach to measuring inequality in health that captures Roemer's distinction between circumstances and effort.

About the speaker

Andrew Jones, PhD (York), is Professor of Economics at the University of York, UK, where he was Head of the Department of Economics and Related Studies between January 2011 and september 2015. He was responsible for the running of the MSc in Health Economics at York between 1994 and 2011. During that time there were over 500 graduates from more than 70 different countries. He has also supervised 23 PhD students. He is a joint editor of Health Economics. He edited the Elgar Companion to Health Economics which was published in 2006 with 50 concise chapters that review the state-of-the-art in the field. A second edition of the Companion was published in 2012. He was elected to the executive board of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and is co-chair of their Arrow Award committee. He is president-elect of the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA).

Lunch will be available from 12.30.