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Health adjusted GDP (HAGDP) measures of the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare

Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2003

Welfare economic analysis of health issues and policies can provide well balanced orderings of the state of the economy. This paper provides an innovative framework for welfare economic analysis of the relationships between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare for both a...

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Health Adjusted GDP (Hagdp) Measures of the Relationship between Economic Growth, Health Outcomes and Social Welfare

Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2021

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Health adjusted GDP (HAGDP) measures of the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare

Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784183

The transition to post-industrial BMI values among US children

Komlos, John; Breitfelder, Ariane; Sunder, Marco - 2008

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the...

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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …

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Testing the Additive Independence Assumption in the Qaly Model

Spencer, Anne - 2008

Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) estimate the utility derived from health states by taking account of life expectancy and quality of life. In applying QALYs to situations where health varies over time, it is usual to assume that we can add the utilities from constituent health states. This...

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The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-Being

Decancq, Koen; Decoster, André; Schokkaert, Erik - 2007

In this paper we investigate the evolution of the inequality in well-being across different countries between 1975 and 2000. We treat well-being as a multidimensional concept focusing on three important dimensions of life: standard of living, health and education. Inequality in the three...

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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?

Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020

Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...

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Italian Cities SDGs Composite Index : A Methodological Approach to Measure the Agenda 2030 at Urban Level

Farnia, Luca - 2019

In this paper we calculate the Italian Cities Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Composite Index potentially useful … for policy analysis and dissemination of sustainable development at local level in Italy. Structured into several … dimensions representing 16 out of 17 SDGs adopted by the United Nations at the end of September 2015, the index merges 53 …

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An indicator of well-being for Italian agriculture

Monda, Mafalda; Gabrieli, Giuliano; Mazziotta, Matteo - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 2, pp. 57-72

Mazziotta-Pareto index (2016). It is a non-compensatory approach for summarizing a set of individual indicators which accounts …

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