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. In the case of Indonesia, we show that the direct and indirect effects of mortality on income distribution have opposite … variables, in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to apply various ways of … ‘correcting’ estimated income distribution measures for ‘sample selection’ due to differential mortality. We implement our …
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infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
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infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
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Inequality ; Differential Mortality ; Inequality in Education …
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One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...
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Development ; Income Inequality ; Differential Mortality ; Inequality in Education …
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One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons...
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