Publication: Inequality beyond GDP: a long view
dc.affiliation.instituto | UC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales | es |
dc.contributor.author | Prados de la Escosura, Leandro | |
dc.contributor.editor | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-03T09:23:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-03T09:23:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study of international well-being and its distribution remains focused on income. This paper addresses multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population-weighted) fell in health and education since the late 1920s, due to the globalisation of mass schooling and the health transition, but only dropped from 1970 onwards in terms of political and civil liberties, and declined since 1900 for augmented human development. These results are at odds with per capita income inequality that rose over time and only shrank from 1990 onwards. Relative and absolute well-being distribution behaved differently, with the distance between countries shrinking in relative terms but widening in absolute terms. Countries in the middle and lower deciles of the world distribution achieved the largest relative gain over the last century. Education and political and civil liberties were the main contributors to the evolution of augmented human development inequality, although longevity made a substantial contribution until the 1920s. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2341-2542 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32049 | |
dc.identifier.uxxi | DT/0000001884 | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economic History | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 21-06 | |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España | * |
dc.subject.jel | I00 | |
dc.subject.jel | N30 | |
dc.subject.jel | O15 | |
dc.subject.jel | O50 | |
dc.subject.other | Inequality | en |
dc.subject.other | Well-Being | en |
dc.subject.other | Life Expectancy | en |
dc.subject.other | Schooling | en |
dc.subject.other | Civil And Political Liberties | en |
dc.subject.other | GDP | en |
dc.subject.other | Augmented Human Development | en |
dc.title | Inequality beyond GDP: a long view | en |
dc.type | working paper | * |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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