Tom Van Ourti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Van Ourti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ourti |
| SIGNATURE | VAN OURTI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0110-770X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion
Impartial-spectator experiments find strong average health inequality aversion with much variation that is unexplained. We examine whether social preferences over own and others’ health can partly explain this variation. We conduct an online experiment, with a UK general public sample (n=903), in which participants allocate resources to determine health of hypothetical individuals. Randomly induced equality-efficiency trade-offs identify particip…
Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries
Economic development was associated with higher and more unequal CVD risk, which may warrant shifting targeting of CVD primary prevention to socially disadvantaged groups
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance
Diverging mortality trends at different ages motivate the monitoring of lifespan inequality alongside life expectancy. Conclusions are ambiguous when life expectancy and lifespan inequality move in the same direction or when inequality measures display inconsistent trends. We propose using nonparametric dominance analysis to obtain a robust ranking of age-at-death distributions. Application to U.S. period life tables for 2006–2021 reveals that, u…
Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines
Wealthier Filipinos have higher predicted CVD risks and greater exposure to all risk factors, except smoking. There is need for a nuanced approach to CVD prevention that targets anti-smoking programmes on the poorer population while targeting diet and exercise interventions on the wealthier
Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities
Our findings indicate that cost-sharing is compounding to existing disruptions in care at the transition between children/adolescent and adult services. The larger reductions in mental health care use among low-income females uncover the role of the deductible increase in widening mental health care inequalities. Increased treatment cessation even among high-intensity users suggests potential long-term consequences for individuals, the health sys…
Persisting inequalities in birth outcomes related to neighbourhood deprivation
INTRODUCTION: Health inequalities can be observed in early life as unfavourable birth outcomes. Evidence indicates that neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances influence health. However, studies looking into temporal trends in inequalities in birth outcomes including neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions are scarce. The aim of this work was to study how inequalities in three different key birth outcomes have changed over time across different …
What Explains Education Disparities in Screening Mammography in the United States? A Comparison with The Netherlands
Background: In the U.S., less educated women are substantially less likely to receive screening mammography. It is not clear whether this is due to differences in access to screening or in perceptions of breast cancer risks and the effectiveness of screening. We weigh the plausibility of these two explanations by examining how the dependence of mammography on education changes after conditioning on indicators of access and perceptions. We also co…
Conindex
Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of socioeconomic-related inequality in health. We introduce the user-written command conindex, which provides point estimates and standard errors of a range of concentration indices. The command also graphs concentration curves (and Lorenz curves) and performs statistical inference fo…
The socioeconomic health gradient across the life cycle
Measuring socioeconomic inequality in health, health care and health financing by means of rank-dependent indices
Socioeconomic differences in health over the life cycle in an Egalitarian country
Determinants of India's Software Exports and Goods Exports
Recent export experience of some large, emerging economies has raised important questions about the trade determinants of the modern-services-driven sectors and the goods-production-driven sectors. In our empirical analysis of the determinants of Indian exports of software services and of the total Indian goods exports, we raise the following questions: How (dis)similar is the performance of the Indian exports of software from the determinants of…
Socioeconomic differences in health over the life cycle in an Egalitarian country
The socioeconomic health gradient across the life cycle
Persisting inequalities in birth outcomes related to neighbourhood deprivation
INTRODUCTION: Health inequalities can be observed in early life as unfavourable birth outcomes. Evidence indicates that neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances influence health. However, studies looking into temporal trends in inequalities in birth outcomes including neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions are scarce. The aim of this work was to study how inequalities in three different key birth outcomes have changed over time across different …
Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities
Our findings indicate that cost-sharing is compounding to existing disruptions in care at the transition between children/adolescent and adult services. The larger reductions in mental health care use among low-income females uncover the role of the deductible increase in widening mental health care inequalities. Increased treatment cessation even among high-intensity users suggests potential long-term consequences for individuals, the health sys…
Determinants of India's Software Exports and Goods Exports
Recent export experience of some large, emerging economies has raised important questions about the trade determinants of the modern-services-driven sectors and the goods-production-driven sectors. In our empirical analysis of the determinants of Indian exports of software services and of the total Indian goods exports, we raise the following questions: How (dis)similar is the performance of the Indian exports of software from the determinants of…
Socioeconomic differences in health over the life cycle in an Egalitarian country
Measuring socioeconomic inequality in health, health care and health financing by means of rank-dependent indices
The socioeconomic health gradient across the life cycle
Conindex
Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of socioeconomic-related inequality in health. We introduce the user-written command conindex, which provides point estimates and standard errors of a range of concentration indices. The command also graphs concentration curves (and Lorenz curves) and performs statistical inference fo…
What Explains Education Disparities in Screening Mammography in the United States? A Comparison with The Netherlands
Background: In the U.S., less educated women are substantially less likely to receive screening mammography. It is not clear whether this is due to differences in access to screening or in perceptions of breast cancer risks and the effectiveness of screening. We weigh the plausibility of these two explanations by examining how the dependence of mammography on education changes after conditioning on indicators of access and perceptions. We also co…
Persisting inequalities in birth outcomes related to neighbourhood deprivation
INTRODUCTION: Health inequalities can be observed in early life as unfavourable birth outcomes. Evidence indicates that neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances influence health. However, studies looking into temporal trends in inequalities in birth outcomes including neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions are scarce. The aim of this work was to study how inequalities in three different key birth outcomes have changed over time across different …
Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities
Our findings indicate that cost-sharing is compounding to existing disruptions in care at the transition between children/adolescent and adult services. The larger reductions in mental health care use among low-income females uncover the role of the deductible increase in widening mental health care inequalities. Increased treatment cessation even among high-intensity users suggests potential long-term consequences for individuals, the health sys…
Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines
Wealthier Filipinos have higher predicted CVD risks and greater exposure to all risk factors, except smoking. There is need for a nuanced approach to CVD prevention that targets anti-smoking programmes on the poorer population while targeting diet and exercise interventions on the wealthier
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance
Diverging mortality trends at different ages motivate the monitoring of lifespan inequality alongside life expectancy. Conclusions are ambiguous when life expectancy and lifespan inequality move in the same direction or when inequality measures display inconsistent trends. We propose using nonparametric dominance analysis to obtain a robust ranking of age-at-death distributions. Application to U.S. period life tables for 2006–2021 reveals that, u…
Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion
Impartial-spectator experiments find strong average health inequality aversion with much variation that is unexplained. We examine whether social preferences over own and others’ health can partly explain this variation. We conduct an online experiment, with a UK general public sample (n=903), in which participants allocate resources to determine health of hypothetical individuals. Randomly induced equality-efficiency trade-offs identify particip…
Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries
Economic development was associated with higher and more unequal CVD risk, which may warrant shifting targeting of CVD primary prevention to socially disadvantaged groups
Demography (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Inequality (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Global Health Care Issues (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Socioeconomic status (7 works)