Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries
نویسندگان
چکیده
This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children experience lower levels than rest population, seniors in particular. We show that, most countries, child is distributed substantially more unequally seniors. also demonstrate that an international ranking inequality diverges sharply from one based on income inequality. The United States exceptional: they lag further behind terms their and face highest and, by far, concentration.
منابع مشابه
Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality ave...
متن کاملMeasuring Wealth and Wealth Inequality: Comparing Two U.S. Surveys.
Household wealth and its distribution are topics of broad public debate and increasing scholarly interest. We compare the relative strength of two of the main data sources used in research on the wealth holdings of U.S. households, the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), by providing a description and explanation of differences in the level and distr...
متن کاملChanges in child mortality over time across the wealth gradient in less-developed countries.
BACKGROUND It is unknown whether inequalities in under-5 mortality by wealth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are growing or declining. METHODS All Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2002 and 2012 were used to measure under-5 mortality trends in 3 wealth tertiles. Two approaches were used to estimate changes in under-5 mortality: within-survey changes from all 54 coun...
متن کاملRelative child poverty, income inequality, wealth, and health.
ABUNDANT EVIDENCE NOW SUGGESTS THAT LIVING IN relative poverty and exposure to relative income inequality, especially in childhood, may have a detrimental influence on health and well-being during childhood and across the life course. This Commentary discusses the importance of relative poverty in childhood and the implications of income inequality for population health. Child relative poverty ...
متن کاملImpact of Wealth Inequality on Child Nutrition in Bangladesh
The aim of this study was to assess the economic difference in nutrition of under-five children. Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey data 2011 were used for this study. In this study, quintiles were calculated on the basis of asset and wealth score by use of principal component analysis. To understand the nutrition status and health inequality concentration index was also calculated. The ratio...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2377-8253', '2377-8261']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2021.7.3.02