Micklewright, John; Ismail, Suraiya - In: Review of Income and Wealth 47 (2001) 1, pp. 65-80
The paper considers the case for the use of data on weight and height of children to assess living standards and public policy, contrasting them with monetized measures of welfare based on household incomes or expenditures. Data on child anthropometry are then used from Uzbekistan, the most...