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Decomposing World Health Inequality

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Menno Pradhan () (World Bank, Washington, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
David E. Sahn
Stephen D. Younger (Cornell University)

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This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator since they avoid the measurement pitfalls of more traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated with using incomes across time or place to compare welfare. Our calculation of world height inequality indicates that in contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is the source of most inequality, rather than the differences between countries.
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