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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150055
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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011
This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818892
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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279382
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Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
Deaton, Angus; Drèze, Jean - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279384
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Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty
Deaton, Angus - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010
I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of PPP price indexes … reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a billion globally poor … people came from an inappropriate updating of the global poverty line, not from the ICP revisions. Even so, PPP comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554091
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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548096
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Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
Deaton, Angus; Drèze, Jean - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548103
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Adult height and childhood disease
Bozzoli, Carlos; Deaton, Angus; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2008
Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738476
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What does the empirical evidence tell us about the injustice of health inequalities?
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2011
Whether or not health inequalities are unjust, as well as how to address them, depends on how they are caused. I review a range of health inequalities, between men and women, between aristocrats and commoners, between blacks and whites, and between rich and poor within and between countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150086