Research on the effects of socioeconomic well-being on health is important for policy makers in developing countries …, where limited resources make it crucial to use existing health care resources to the best advantage. This paper develops and … tests a set of measures of socioeconomic status indicators for predicting health status in developing countries. We …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of … the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland …

thinking about how income dispersion and mortality might be related and suggest that income inequality gas a number of social … health of its people -independent of how wealthy a society is in absolute terms. In this paper, we review the current …

Curve and some of its properties make it an interesting alternative to the Gini index. Like most other inequality measures …Zenga’s new inequality curve and index are two recent tools for measuring inequality. Proposed in 2007, they should … index relative to the Gini index are discussed. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012 …

In this paper, we apply a multidimensional decomposition of the Gini index to the active and retired populations in … France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …. However, we question the extent to which this multidimensional inequality indicator is a relevant tool for the study of …

The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted … individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we show that only one form satisfies a set of desirable properties …. This form can be used for decomposing the Gini into population subgroups. An illustration with UK data shows the use of …

such a large panel to study income distribution and inequality of household income make empirical results of this study …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes …