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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2014 Jul 30;24(10):1348–1367. doi: 10.1002/hec.3092

Table 2.

Partitioning between legitimate and illegitimate sources of inequality (effort and circumstances) for different ethical positions

Legitimate Illegitimate
All Illegitimate
(ALLILLEG)		 Age-gender, education, married,
children, home ownership, religion,
region and urbanization
Control
(CONTROL)		 Married, children, religion, region,
urbanization, home ownership		 Age-gender, education
Preference
(PREF)		 Lifestyles Age-gender, education, married,
children, home ownership,
for health events and mortality
Authentic
preference
(PREFA)		 Age-gender, home ownership,
married, children, religion, region,
urbanization (i.e., all but education) for
lifestyles		 Education for lifestyles, health
events and mortality; age-gender,
married, children, home ownership,
for health events and mortality
Standardization
(STAND)		 Age-gender Education, married, children, religion,
region, urbanization, home ownership
SES Inequality
(SES)		 Age-gender, married, children,
religion, region, urbanization		 Education, home ownership
Regional
inequality
(REG)		 Age-gender, education, married,
children, religion, home ownership		 Region, urbanization