environment of stagnant or worsening levels of income poverty. Unfortunately, our results indicate that in the area of health …This paper describes changes over the past 15-20 years in non-income measures of wellbeing—education and health … public spending in the social sector would contribute to declining poverty and inequality in health and education, even in an …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of … poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of … poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …