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The Evolution of the Conditional Joint Distribution of Life Expectancy and Per Capita Income Growth
Stengos, Thanasis; Thompson, Brennan S.; Wu, Ximing - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009
In this paper we investigate the joint conditional distribution of health (life expectancy) and income growth and its evolution over time. The conditional distributions of these two variables are obtained by applying nonparametric methods to a bivariate nonparametric regression system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965511
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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
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