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Multilateral Wellbeing and Inequality Measurement with Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption and the Aging Process in China

In: Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks

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  • Gordon Anderson
  • Rui Fu

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Wellbeing evaluation using ordered categorical response data is hazardous given the scale dependent nature of most measures of wellbeing and inequality. Here, scale independent instruments for measuring levels of wellbeing and inequalities between groups in multidimensional ordered categorical environments are introduced and applied in a study of health and consumption wellbeing and the aging process in twenty‐first century China. Urban/rural location, gender, age and the availability of welfare support were considered circumstances in what is in essence a study of equality of opportunity in the acquisition of health and consumption wellbeing in Chinas’ aging population. Older populations are found to experience diminished and increasingly diverse wellbeing outcomes that are, to some extent, ameliorated by welfare support.

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  • Gordon Anderson & Rui Fu, 2021. "Multilateral Wellbeing and Inequality Measurement with Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption and the Aging Process in China," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks, volume 29, pages 5-30, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-258520210000029002
    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520210000029002
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    Keywords

    Wellbeing measurement; ordering distributions; ordinal data; China; aging process; inequality; C14; I14; I30; I31;
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    JEL classification:

    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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