-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

apply the model to childhood poverty in Mozambique. …

outcomes: education, health, and income. … Adolescent to Adult Health, we evaluate inequality of opportunity in the USA for the case of three dimensions of individual …

Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life … expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations … disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity …

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … distributions (regression-based decomposition into composition and income structure effects). I show that the predominant approach … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures …

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We … propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …