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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880-190
Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
How well did Kenyans do under colonial rule?  It is common sense that Kenyans suffered under exploitative colonial policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial Kenya by (1) using a new and comprehensive data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004192
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Welfare Spending and Quality of Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Hopefuls, Contenders and Best Performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … positive effects with increasing magnitude among Best Performers (0.10th to 0.90th quantile) and (2) education spending has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390920
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Welfare Spending and Quality of Growth in Developing Countries: A Note on Evidence from Hopefuls, Contenders and Best Performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta - 2016
the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596364
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … positive effects with increasing magnitude among Best Performers (0.10th to 0.90th quantile) and (2) education spending has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523138
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Welfare trends in Romania, 1990-2014
Toader, Şerban; Iancu, Victor; Olteanu, Dan - 2016
half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591947
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A Multidimensional Analysis of Adaptation in a Developing Country Context
Barr, Abigail; Clark, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
aspired to education.  However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004220
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Orphanhood and the long-run impact on children
Dercon, Stefan; Beegle, Kathleen - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820295