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Height, Health, and Inequality : The Distribution of Adult Heights in India
Deaton, Angus - 2011
I explore the relationship between the distribution of adult heights and the distribution of income. It has previously been argued (a) that average adult height may depend negatively on income inequality; (b) that some measure of inequality in adult heights is informative about inequality in...
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Measuring Poverty
Deaton, Angus - 2004
This paper provides a non-technical account of poverty measurement at the local, national, and global levels. The … poverty measurement …
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Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas
Tarozzi, Alessandro; Deaton, Angus - 2008
Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no …. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area "poverty maps" based on census data enriched by relationships estimated … precise estimates of poverty and inequality for areas as small as 20,000 households. In this paper we argue that to usefully …
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Where in the world is the world heading?
Deaton, Angus - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 39 (2017) 4, pp. 603-607
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Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism
Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - 2021 - First paperback edition
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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,...
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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
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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/10011150184
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What does the empirical evidence tell us about the injustice of health inequalities?
Deaton, Angus - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 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/10011150225
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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/10011150254