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Born to win? : the role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities
Madden, David - 2013
of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791107
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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546250
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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households
Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020
This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153189
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379598
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Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013
Mahrt, Kristi; Nanivazo, Malokele - 2015
growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411151
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Overall Inequality Verses Wealth Based Inequality in Child Malnutrition : An Empirical Illustration for India
Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014
This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...
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Parental income and the dynamics of health inequality in early childhood : evidence from the UK
Kruk, Kai Eberhard - In: Health economics 22 (2013) 10, pp. 1199-1214
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences : evidence based on Japanese general social survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for various individual characteristics, the important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526919
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Quantifying Socioeconomic Inequality in Childhood Obesity
Laugwitz, Justus; Mitchell, Mark; Valdivieso Massa, Patricio - 2021
We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they have an obese parent. Irrespective of their...
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286262