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This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews methods for cases when health can be measured cardinally...
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Smoking, low physical activity and frequent alcohol consumption may have substantial health risks in terms of disease, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the context of a rapidly ageing population. In this...
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inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … consumption from the WDI 2014. Results are lively and remarkable. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an 'anomalous … that, in some countries, the index of refraction of the richest group exceeds that of Diamond (2.42), where an index value …
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In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country sample clones. A clone is a random sample that reproduces – with predetermined high probability and precision – an unknown survey sample using information that is 'encoded'...
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