Die öffentliche Debatte über "Neue Armut", "Unterschicht" und "Prekariat" hat den Blick darauf gerichtet, dass in der reichen Industrienation Deutschland zunehmend mehr Menschen den sozialen Abstieg fürchten oder bereits kein ökonomisch gesichertes Leben mehr führen.

Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...

This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...