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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062096
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146846
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Iran's multi-ethnic mosaic : a 23-year perspective
Fesharaki, Sanaz; Majbouri, Mahdi - 2016
In this study, we embark on measuring inequality in Iran. We compute three measures of group-based inequality (Group-weighted Coefficient of Variation, Group-weighted Gini, and Group-weighted Theil) for the following outcomes: education, assets, income, and expenditure per capita. The groups are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557155
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A Theory of General Cause of Violent Crime : Homicides, Income Inequality and Fallacies of the Heat Hypothesis and of the Model of CLASH
Coccia, Mario - 2017
This paper has two goals. The first is to show that the heat hypothesis provides a partial explanation of violent crime in society. The second is to suggest an alternative hypothesis that intentional homicides can be explained by the level of income inequality, even when controlling thermal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944890
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986609
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Wealth and income inequalities <- → r>g
Malevergne, Yannick; Sornette, Didier - 2016
Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century posits the return r on capital to be larger than the economic growth rate g as a main driver of inequalities. This article points out the circumstances under which the reverse inference holds. We show that increasing inequality promotes increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625600
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The weight of inequality : variation with industrialization and wealth
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted … measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to … controlling for height as a measure for current net nutrition and shows that US black and white weights decreased throughout the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392586
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459794
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Geographical spread of global emissions : within-country inequalities are increasing
Sauter, Caspar; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A. - 2015
The major greenhouse gases, CO2 and CH4, are uniformly mixing, but spatial inequalities in emissions do matter in terms of both efficiency and equity of environmental policy formation and implementation. As the recent evidence has mainly focused on convergence issues between countries, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410301