Changes in inequality and poverty in Latin America: Looking beyond income to health and education

被引:17
作者
Sahn, David E. [1 ]
Younger, Stephen D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Cornell Food Nutr Policy Program, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
关键词
inequality; poverty; health; education; Latin America;
D O I
10.1080/15140326.2006.12040645
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey data from six Latin American countries to analyze levels and trends of inequality for two important non-income measures of wellbeing, children's stature and adult women's educational attainment. Our purpose is to determine whether the worrying trend of increasing income inequality in Latin America is also found in non-income dimensions of well-being. We find that it is not. Almost across the board, health inequality, measured by children's stature, and education inequality, measured by young women's years of schooling, have fallen in these countries in the late 1980s and 1990s, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean and changes in the distribution of health and education, we show that reduced inequality has contributed to significant reductions in education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income inequality literature.
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页码:215 / 233
页数:19
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