different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over …

health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia using the 2010 Living Standards and Social …-reported variable for health status. The Shapley-value decomposition is then used to estimate the contribution of early … adult health …

A country's performance in health attainment refers to both its achievement (level) and its improvement (evolution) in … the health domain. Studies on performance generally measure health attainment using the average health level of the … population, and quantify health improvement employing the change in attainment over time. However this approach is flawed because …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … according to health indicator and geographic region. Specifically, geographic location, parents’ education, and parental wealth … factors, such as random variations in health. The results of the generalized entropy measures indicate that the overall …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … education and wealth are the main factors contributing to inequality of opportunity in child health outcome. On the basis of the …