Adult Height and Childhood Disease (2009)
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
Demography - Volume 46, Number 4, November 2009
Adult height and childhood disease (2008)
Bozzoli, Carlos, Deaton, Angus
Las poblaciones más altas en estatura tienden a ser poblaciones más ricas, y los individuos altos viven más tiempo y ganan unos mayores salarios, quizás reflejando el hecho de que poseen mayores...
Liquidity Constraints, H eterogeneous Consum ers and (2007)
Alexander Michaelides, Angus Deaton, Michael Haliassos, Harald Uhlig
Woodford for helpful discussions. Any remaining errors or omissions are my own responsibility. Comments welcome. 1 The interaction of liquidity constraints and a precautionary savings motive in an...
Counting the world poor: Problems and possible solutions (2007)
As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth—both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most...
Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, Angus Deaton, Paul Duane, Eduardo Engel, Stanley Fischer, ...
Using economic rates of return from World Bank-funded investments, we investigate how country characteristics and policies that influence aggregate performance affect investment productivity....
Surjit S. Bhalla, Suman Bery, Angus Deaton, Farrukh Iqbal, Ravinder Kaur, Rajiv Lall, ...
One of the most important development goals is the reduction in absolute poverty to 15 percent by 2015. This and related development goals have been agreed upon by governments and the UN system, and...
Authors: Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality (2007)
Chris Elbers, Chris Elbers, De Boelelaan, Jean O. Lanjouw, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw, ...
1 We are very grateful to Ecuador's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censo (INEC) for making its 1990 unit-record census data available to us. Much of this research was done while the authors...
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
This data set contains data on the health histories of, and access to healthcare facilities for, individuals located in the Udaipur districts of Rajasthan, India. Data was collected at the household...
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
This data set contains data on the health histories of, and access to healthcare facilities for, individuals located in the Udaipur districts of Rajasthan, India. Data was collected at the household...
Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas (2007)
Tarozzi, Alessandro, Deaton, Angus
Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no or few observations are available. Census data are more plentiful, but typically...
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
This data set contains data on the health histories of, and access to healthcare facilities for, individuals located in the Udaipur districts of Rajasthan, India. Data was collected at the household...
Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate (2005)
What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the...
Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate (2005)
What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the...
Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate (2005)
What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the...
Wellbeing over time in Britain and the USA (2004)
David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Angus Deaton, Rafael Di Tella, Hank Farber, Richard Freeman, ...
This paper studies happiness in the United States and Great Britain. Reported levels of wellbeing have declined over the last quarter of a century in the US; life satisfaction has run approximately...
Centre for Development Economics POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN INDIA: (2002)
A Reexamination, Angus Deaton, Jean Drèze
This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with...
Counting the World’s Poor (2001)
Angus Deaton, Martin Ravallion
There is almost never just one way to measure an economic variable, and poverty is no exception. Judgments are required about the best method—given the data available—at virtually every step,...
Counting the World’s Poor (2001)
Angus Deaton, T. N. Srinivasan
In his very instructive article, Angus Deaton argues that for international institutions (for example, the World Bank) and the national governments of most poor countries (for example, India),...
The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption and Saving (2001)
Martin Browning, Thomas F. Crossley, Martin Browning, Alan Krueger, Brad De Long, ...
¤ This paper was prepared for inclusion in a symposium on saving and consumption in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. The authors thank, without implication, Timothy
Counting the World's Poor: Problems and Possible Solutions (2001)
As recent discussions have made clear, the apparent lack of poverty reduction in the face of historically high rates of economic growth—both in the world as a whole and in specific countries (most...
Parametric and non-parametric approaches to price and tax reform (1997)
In many public policy problems, we need to estimate the way in which policy changes affect people's behavior. In the analysis of tax and subsidy reform, which is the topic of this paper, we need to...
Benjamin, Dwayne, Deaton, Angus
Cocoa and coffee are the most important crops in Côte d'Ivoire. Until recently, the difference between world and administered producer prices provided an important source of government revenue. As a...
Saving and Income Smoothing in Cote d'Ivoire (1992)
This paper is concerned with the extent to which farmers and other households in Côte d'lvoire save and dis-save in order to make their consumption smoother than their incomes. I attempt to test a...
Looking for Boy-Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditure Data (1989)
The ability to test for discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls is hampered by a lack of data on intrahousehold distribution. The analysis presented here allows inferences...
Household Survey Data and Pricing Policies in Developing Countries (1989)
In recent years, household survey data from developing countries have increasingly become available and have been increasingly used to cast light on important questions of policy. The reform of...
Economics and consumer behavior / Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer (1980)
Deaton, Angus, Muellbauer, John
Incluye bibliografía e índice
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis...
Intertemporal Choice and Inequality.
Deaton, Angus, Paxson, Christina
The permanent income hypothesis implies that, for any cohort of people, inequality in consumption and income should grow with age, a prediction that is here confirmed using data from eleven years of...
The Demand for Food and Calories.
Subramanian, Shankar, Deaton, Angus
The authors investigate nutrition and expenditure in rural Maharashtra in India. They estimate that the elasticity of calorie consumption with respect to total expenditure is 0.3-0.5, a range that is...
Competitive Storage and Commodity Price Dynamics.
By buying cheap and selling dear, risk-neutral commodity speculators can smooth commodity prices and induce serial dependence in price even when none would exist under a simple process of supply and...
John Y. Campbell, Angus Deaton
For thirty years, it has been accepted that consumption is smooth because permanent income is smoother than measured income. This paper considers the evidence for the contrary position, that...
Life-Cycle Models of Consumption: Is the Evidence Consistent with the Theory?
The paper considers avariety of evidence that casts light on the validity of the life-cycle model of consumer behavior. In the first part of the paper, simple non-parametric tests are used to examine...
Saving and Liquidity Constraints
This paper is concerned with the theory of saving when consumers are not permitted to borrow, and with the ability of such a theory to account for some of the stylized facts of saving behavior. When...
Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone....
Prices and Poverty in India, 1987-2000
Using consumption data from the 43rd, 50th and 55th rounds of the National Sample Survey, this paper computes for each of the large Indian states, by urban and rural sectors separately, a range of...
Adjusted Indian Poverty Estimates for 1999-2000
This paper explains a method that can be used to adjust the NSS 55th Round poverty estimates so as to make them comparable with earlier official estimates. After presenting the adjusted head-count...
Consumption, health, gender and poverty
Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide...
A model of commodity prices after Sir Arthur Lewis
We develop an idea from Arthur Lewis’ paper on unlimited supplies of labor to model the longrun behavior of the prices of primary commodity produced by poor countries. Commodity supply is assumed...
Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the...
Health, inequality, and economic development
I explore the connection between health and inequality in both poor and rich countries. My primary focus is on the relationship between income inequality and mortality, but I also discuss the effects...
Counting the world’s poor: problems and possible solutions
The World Bank prepares and publishes estimates of the number of poor people in the world. While everyone knows that these numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt, the numbers are arguably...
Angus Deaton, Alessandro Tarozzi
In India, as in other countries, indexes of consumer prices perform many important functions. Millions of workers have their wages indexed to some measure of the price level. Just as important is the...
Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates For Welfare Analysis
Poverty is a complex phenomenon involving multiple dimensions of deprivation, of which the lack of goods and services is only one. Even so, there is a good deal of consensus on the value of using a...
Housing, land prices, and the link between growth and saving
This paper is concerned with the relationship between saving and growth. Within an overlapping- generations model of economic growth, we ask how the existence of a fixed supply of land for housing,...
Growth, demographic structure, and national saving in Taiwan
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
This paper is concerned with the effects that changes in demographic structure have had on Taiwan’s national saving rate, and how coming changes in its age structure—notably population...
Saving and growth: another look at the cohort evidence
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
In recent years, as longer time series of cross-sectional household surveys have become available, it has become possible to look at the consumption and saving behavior of birth cohorts in a number...
Poverty among children and the elderly in developing countries
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher...
Child mortality, income and adult height
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early...
Health and wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa
This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa – countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and...
David Cutler, Angus Deaton, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30...
Health and wealth among the poor: India and South Africa compared
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health...
Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa
We examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sumsþabout twice the median per capita income of African householdsþare paid to people qualified by age but irrespective of...
Height, health, and development
Adult height is determined by genetic potential and by net nutrition, the balance between food intake and the demands on it, including the demands of disease, most importantly during early childhood....
The Distance Function in Consumer Behaviour with Applications to Index Numbers and Optimal Taxation.
Quality, Quantity, and Spatial Variation of Price.
This paper develops and implements a method for estimating price elasticities of demand using cross-sectional household survey data. Geographically clustered households report unit values, which when...
Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?
Much of the profession accepts that the CPI likely overstates the rate of increase of the cost-of-living. It is less clear that there are sound and feasible steps that the BLS can adopt to improve...
Consumption, health, gender, and poverty
Standard methods of measuring poverty assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods provide only...
Household Saving in LDCs: Credit Markets, Insurance and Welfare.
Some ways in which farmers in LDCs can protect their living standards against fluctuations in income are discussed. After considering the theory of consumption under uncertainty when there is no or...
Prices and Poverty in India, 1987-2000
Using consumption data from the 43rd, 50th and 55th rounds of the National Sample Survey, this paper computes for each of the large Indian states, by urban and rural sectors separately, a range of...
Adjusted Indian Poverty Estimates for 1999-2000
This paper explains a method that can be used to adjust the NSS 55th Round poverty estimates so as to make them comparable with earlier official estimates. After presenting the adjusted head-count...
Consumption, health, gender and poverty
Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide...
Child mortality, income and adult height
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early...
Health and wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa
This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa – countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and...
David Cutler, Angus Deaton, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30...
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel’s work places great...
Regional poverty estimates for India, 1999-2000
This note presenta adjusted poverty headcount ratios for the regions of the major state of India using the data from the 55th Round of the Indian National Sample Survey. These estimates are...
Health and wealth among the poor: India and South Africa compared
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health...
As the name suggests, economic development was originally thought of as economic growth, but in recent years it has increasingly come to be thought of as poverty reduction. The World Bank proclaims...
Health in an age of globalization
Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease shaped patterns of...
Purchasing power parity exchange rates from household survey data: India and Indonesia
Angus Deaton, Jed Friedman, Vivi Alatas
Purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are extensively used by researchers and by policymakers. This paper proposes and implements a new methodology for calculating PPPs using information on...
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
What are the determinants of the health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health-care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more...
Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption...
How to monitor poverty for the Millennium Development Goals
I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss...
Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination
This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with...
A model of commodity prices after Sir Arthur Lewis
We develop an idea from Arthur Lewis’ paper on unlimited supplies of labor to model the longrun behavior of the prices of primary commodity produced by poor countries. Commodity supply is assumed...
Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the...
Health, inequality, and economic development
I explore the connection between health and inequality in both poor and rich countries. My primary focus is on the relationship between income inequality and mortality, but I also discuss the effects...
Counting the world’s poor: problems and possible solutions
The World Bank prepares and publishes estimates of the number of poor people in the world. While everyone knows that these numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt, the numbers are arguably...
Angus Deaton, Alessandro Tarozzi
In India, as in other countries, indexes of consumer prices perform many important functions. Millions of workers have their wages indexed to some measure of the price level. Just as important is the...
Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates For Welfare Analysis
Poverty is a complex phenomenon involving multiple dimensions of deprivation, of which the lack of goods and services is only one. Even so, there is a good deal of consensus on the value of using a...
The measurement and understanding of living standards are overarching goals of the living standards surveys. Much of the focus is on poverty or deprivation, the lack of adequate living standards....
Housing, land prices, and the link between growth and saving
This paper is concerned with the relationship between saving and growth. Within an overlapping- generations model of economic growth, we ask how the existence of a fixed supply of land for housing,...
Growth, demographic structure, and national saving in Taiwan
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
This paper is concerned with the effects that changes in demographic structure have had on Taiwan’s national saving rate, and how coming changes in its age structure—notably population...
Saving and growth: another look at the cohort evidence
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
In recent years, as longer time series of cross-sectional household surveys have become available, it has become possible to look at the consumption and saving behavior of birth cohorts in a number...
Poverty among children and the elderly in developing countries
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher...
POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher...
School quality and educational outcomes in South Africa
That educational inputs should be important determinants of educational outcomes is a proposition that appeals to common sense, but is nevertheless controversial in the literature both for developed...
Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone....
Child mortality, income and adult height
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early...
Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone....
Health and wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa
This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa – countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and...
David Cutler, Angus Deaton, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30...
Health and wealth among the poor: India and South Africa compared
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health...
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel’s work places great...
Health in an age of globalization
Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease shaped patterns of...
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
What are the determinants of the health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health-care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more...
Broken down by work and sex: how our health declines
Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men,...
Consumption, health, gender and poverty
Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide...
Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the...
MORTALITY, INCOME, AND INCOME INEQUALITY OVER TIME IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different...
Health, inequality, and economic development
I explore the connection between health and inequality in both poor and rich countries. My primary focus is on the relationship between income inequality and mortality, but I also discuss the effects...
Relative deprivation, inequality, and mortality
I present a model of mortality and income which attempts to integrate the “gradient,” the negative relationship between income and mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality...
Mortality, education, income and inequality among American cohorts
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater than $50,000. We explore this finding using both...
Inequalities in income and inequalities in health
What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality pose a hazard...
Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone....
Purchasing power parity exchange rates from household survey data: India and Indonesia
Angus Deaton, Jed Friedman, Vivi Alatas
Purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are extensively used by researchers and by policymakers. This paper proposes and implements a new methodology for calculating PPPs using information on...
Child mortality, income and adult height
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early...
Health and wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa
This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa – countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and...
David Cutler, Angus Deaton, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30...
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel’s work places great...
Regional poverty estimates for India, 1999-2000
This note presenta adjusted poverty headcount ratios for the regions of the major state of India using the data from the 55th Round of the Indian National Sample Survey. These estimates are...
Health and wealth among the poor: India and South Africa compared
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of well-being based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings depending on the way that income and health...
As the name suggests, economic development was originally thought of as economic growth, but in recent years it has increasingly come to be thought of as poverty reduction. The World Bank proclaims...
Health in an age of globalization
Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease shaped patterns of...
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
What are the determinants of the health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health-care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more...
Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption...
How to monitor poverty for the Millennium Development Goals
I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss...
Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination
This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with...
The measurement and understanding of living standards are overarching goals of the living standards surveys. Much of the focus is on poverty or deprivation, the lack of adequate living standards....
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel’s work places great...
Health in an age of globalization
Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease shaped patterns of...
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo
What are the determinants of the health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of the story, but does access to health-care have a large independent effect, as the advocates of more...
Broken down by work and sex: how our health declines
Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men,...
Consumption, health, gender and poverty
Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide...
Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the...
MORTALITY, INCOME, AND INCOME INEQUALITY OVER TIME IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different...
Health, inequality, and economic development
I explore the connection between health and inequality in both poor and rich countries. My primary focus is on the relationship between income inequality and mortality, but I also discuss the effects...
Relative deprivation, inequality, and mortality
I present a model of mortality and income which attempts to integrate the “gradient,” the negative relationship between income and mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality...
Mortality, education, income and inequality among American cohorts
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater than $50,000. We explore this finding using both...
Inequalities in income and inequalities in health
What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality pose a hazard...
On the Behaviour of Commodity Prices.
This paper applies the standard rational expectations competitive storage model to the study of thirteen commodities. It explains the skewness and the existence of rare, but violent, explosions in...
Campbell, John Y, Deaton, Angus
For thirty years it has been accepted that consumption is smooth because permanent income is smoother than measured income. This paper considers the evidence for the contrary position--that permanent...
Saving and Liquidity Constraints.
This paper is concerned with the theory of saving when consumers are not permitted to borrow, and with the ability of such a theory to account for some of the stylized facts of saving behavior. The...
The Great Escape: A Review of Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100, which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis...
Health, Inequality, and Economic Development
I discuss mechanisms linking health and inequality and review evidence for effects of income inequality on aggregate and individual mortality, over time and over space. I conclude that there is no...
Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa
African states that came to independence by the late 1960s made a rapid transition to authoritarian rule during a period of reasonably robust growth. Growth then faltered badly from the mid-1970s to...
David Cutler, Angus Deaton, Adriana Lleras-Muney
The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was...
Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa.
The authors examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sums--about twice the median per capita income of African bouseholds--are paid to people qualified by age but irrespective of...
Rice Prices and Income Distribution in Thailand: A Non-parametric Analysis.
Rice is a staple crop in Thailand, significantly entering both household production and consumption. This paper examines the effect of rice prices on the distribution of real income across...
Housing, Land Prices, and Growth.
We consider the effects of land for housing on the growth process within an overlapping generations model. Our original interest was to enquire whether the introduction of land into a growth model...
This paper is concerned with the estimation of a model in which a possibly serially correlated stochastic process, the "harvest" of an agricultural commodity, generates a competitive price in a...
Parametric and non-parametric approaches to price and tax reform
In many public policy problems, we need to estimate the way in which policy changes affect people's behavior. In the analysis of tax and subsidy reform, which is the topic of this paper, we need to...
DEATON: Stata modules to analyze household surveys
Deaton.zip contains the STATA code used to produce the results in "The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy", by Angus Deaton. This book, published for the...
Household Surveys, Consumption, and the Measurement of Poverty
Household surveys are playing an increasingly important role in the measurement of poverty and well-being around the world. The Living Standards Measurement Study, which was begun in the World Bank...
School Inputs And Educational Outcomes In South Africa
We examine the relationship between educational inputs-primarily pupil-teacher ratios-and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid government. Black households were...
Growth and Saving Among Individuals and Households
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
The lifecycle theory of saving and consumption predicts that changes in an economy's rate of economic growth will affect its aggregate saving rate by changing the lifetime resources of younger people...
Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there are better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption...
Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate
What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the...
Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
During 2006, the Gallup Organization conducted a World Poll that used an identical questionnaire for national samples of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction and on...
Adult height and childhood disease
Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana
Taller populations are generally richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more, perhaps reflecting their superior cognitive abilities. Understanding the determinants of adult...
On The Behavior of Commodity Prices
The classical theory of commodity price determination integrates myopic supply and demand on the one hand with competitive storage (speculation) under rational expectations on the other. Taking into...
Patterns of Aging in Thailand and Cote D'Ivoire
Angus Deaton, Christina H. Paxson
This paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d'Ivoire and Thailand. We use a series of household surveys from these two...
Intertemporal Choice and Inequality
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
We show that standard models of intertemporal choice, including the permanent income hypothesis, imply that for any given cohort of people born at the same time, inequality in both consumption and...
Saving, Growth, and Aging in Taiwan
Angus Deaton, Christina H. Paxson
This paper examines issues of household saving, growth. and aging in Taiwan. The Taiwanese patterns of high income growth, declines in fertility, and increases in life expectancy all have...
Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or family data on income or expenditure. The transition from one to the other requires assumptions about...
Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches to Price and Tax Reform
In the analysis of tax reform, when equity is traded off against efficiency, the measurement of the latter requires us to know how tax- induced price changes affect quantities supplied and demanded....
Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater than $50,000. We explore this finding using both...
Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health
What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I...
Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle
Angus Deaton, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Christina Paxson
This paper examines the consequences of social security reform for the inequality of consumption across individuals. The idea is that inequality is at least in part the result of individual risk in...
Relative Deprivation, Inequality, and Mortality
I present a model of mortality and income that integrates the 'gradient,' the negative relationship between income and mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality poses a risk to...
Health, Inequality, and Economic Development
I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of mechanisms, including nonlinear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional...
Mortality, Inequality and Race in American Cities and States
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the...
Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States
Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson
We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different...
Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines
Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men,...
Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption...
Health in an Age of Globalization
Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease shaped patterns of...
Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone....
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
During 2006, the Gallup Organization conducted a World Poll that used an identical questionnaire for national samples of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness)...
Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
PPP-based national accounts have become an important part of the database for macroeconomists, development economists, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World...
Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean...
Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean...
Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
In spite of India’s rapid economic growth, there has been a sustained decline in per capita calorie consumption during the last twenty-five years. While the decline has been largest among...
Price trends in India and their implications for measuring poverty
The Indian national sample surveys collect data on the unit values of a large number of foods which can be used to compute price index numbers that can be compared with the official national price...
Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean...
Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
In spite of India’s rapid economic growth, there has been a sustained decline in per capita calorie consumption during the last twenty-five years. While the decline has been largest among...
Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa
Angus Deaton, Jane Fortson, Robert Tortora
We use data from the Gallup World Poll and from the Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate how subjective wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality...
"Housing, Land Prices, and the Link between Growth and Saving"
optimal matching
Evidence from Pensions in South Africa
Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo, Jon Gruber, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Morduch, Marianne Bertr, ...
1. A large body literature has examined resource transfers in the close family (husband and wife or parent and young child). Lundberg and Pollak (1996) provide a survey. In the close family, one can...
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish Bhagwati, Angus Deaton, Nicholas Stern
With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global...
Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash
Deaton and Lubotsky (2003) found that the robust positive relationship across American cities between mortality and income inequality became small, insignificant, and/or non-robust once they...
NUTRITION IN INDIA: FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS
The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from 1980 to...
Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data...
Economics and Consumer Behavior
The idea of duality has proved to be a powerful device in modern work on the economics of consumer behaviour. The authors have used duality to provide an integrated and accessible treatment of this...
Life at the top: The benefits of height
According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index daily poll of the US population, taller people live better lives, at least on average. They evaluate their lives more favorably, and they are more...