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Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

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Improvements in Children's Health : Does Inequality Matter?

Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2005

using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in … different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …

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Overall Inequality Verses Wealth Based Inequality in Child Malnutrition : An Empirical Illustration for India

Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014

wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A …. The degree of Wealth-based inequality is estimated at around 25% of overall inequality for both compromised z-score (h …/a). Moreover, 'Between-Group' inequality component for different wealth quintiles contributes the major part (around 100%) of …

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Housing the Poor

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2017

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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Fieldof Human Rights

Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...

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Inequality or Poverty : Which is Bad for Growth?

Breunig, Robert V. - 2016

Recent research has highlighted a negative impact of inequality on economic growth. We re-evaluate this hypothesis focusing on both inequality and poverty and their interaction. We replicate previous results showing that inequality has a negative impact on growth. However, we show that when we...

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