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Inequality of Opportunity in Adult Health in Colombia
Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961983
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Socio-economic inequalities and their impact on children's health and nutrition in Tunisia using generalized entropy measures
Ochi, Anis; Saidi, Yosra - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 6, pp. 1-15
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 … general disparity in child health is low across demographic characteristics. Inequality of opportunity in Tunisia is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584318
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Improvements in Children's Health : Does Inequality Matter?
Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2005
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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The impact of socioeconomic inequality on children's health and well-being
Cabieses, Baltica; Pickett, Kate E.; Wilkinson, Richard G. - In: The Oxford handbook of economics and human biology, (pp. 244-265). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529145
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242447
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Impact of Socioeconomic Inequality on Children’s Health and Well-being
Cabieses, Baltica; Pickett, Kate E.; Wilkinson, Richard G. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013476360
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153307
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Chronic child poverty and health outcomes in South Africa using a multidimensional poverty measure
Von Fintel, Marisa; Burger, Ronelle - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388271
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146846