TY - JOUR
T1 - Health, wealth, fertility, education, and inequality
AU - Fielding, David
AU - Torres, Sebastian
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58849099947&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00460.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00460.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58849099947
SN - 1363-6669
VL - 13
SP - 39
EP - 55
JO - Review of Development Economics
JF - Review of Development Economics
IS - 1
ER -
