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Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers
Sinha, Kompal; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M.; … - 2018
This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures along with a range of nurse measured and blood-based biomarkers for a … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927777
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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744041
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Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health among the elderly in China : a distributional decomposition analysis of biomarkers
Ding, Lanlin; Jones, Andrew M.; Nie, Peng - 2020
for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227917
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267478
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Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations
Gasper, Des - 2004
Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279054
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Indicators of inequality and poverty
Subramanian, S. - 2004
This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and functionings. In addition to an introductory and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284611
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What money can't buy: The relevance of income redistribution for functioning levels
Lelli, Sara - 2004
This paper relates Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the literature on equivalence scales. Synthetic indicators of well-being are constructed by adjusting individual incomes for differences in functionings. An exploratory comparative application to Italian and Belgian data illustrates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284886
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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424257