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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,...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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/10011150225
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 …
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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...
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basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …
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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