Makdissi, Paul; Yazbeck, Myra - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2015
mainly focused on the socioeconomic dimension of health inequality, can produce such counter-intuitive results that overlooks … the pure health inequality aversion of the planner. Building on Atkinson (1970), Yitzhaki (1983) and Wagstaff (2002), this … paper presents a simple new class of health achievement and health inequality indices that overcomes the above mentioned …