-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 …

India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We … use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13 ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on … the lack of consensus embedded in data quality and availability, measurement issues, and the shortcomings of the different …

Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of … illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups …. Using the World Health Organization study on global ageing and adult health, I find that the poor use a different reporting …

The subject of this paper is health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique, with special reference to leprosy. It is … argued that the health policies and strategies adopted in the colonial and post-colonial periods led to an unequal … distribution not only of certain diseases but also of health infrastructures. The colonial regime, by neglecting and creating …

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … factors, such as random variations in health. The results of the generalized entropy measures indicate that the overall … inequality in child health is high, particularly in poor and conflict-affected regions. The contribution of inequality of …

This paper discusses different approaches to the measurement of global interpersonal in equality. Trends in global … is a complex one. In particular, we demonstrate that the changes in China’s and India’s income distributions over the …

This paper develops a normative approach to the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in a multidimensional … Adolescent to Adult Health, we evaluate inequality of opportunity in the USA for the case of three dimensions of individual … outcomes: education, health, and income. …