Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings … and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non …-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing …

inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined through decomposition by income source and population subgroups …

This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer … and income distribution. …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for … ; income ; disability ; mortality trends …