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Health, Wealth, Fertility, Education, and Inequality
Author(s) -
Fielding David,
Torres Sebastian
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00460.x
Subject(s) - inequality , fertility , economics , demographic economics , economic inequality , order (exchange) , income inequality metrics , econometrics , labour economics , sociology , population , demography , mathematics , mathematical analysis , finance
The authors use a new cross‐country dataset to estimate the strength of the links between different dimensions of social and economic development, including indicators of health, fertility, and education, as well as material wellbeing. This differs from previous studies in employing data for different income groups in each country in order to provide direct evidence on factors driving inequality, and in using a unique measure of material wellbeing that does not rely on PPP comparisons.