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Inequality beyond GDP: a long view

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorPrados de la Escosura, Leandro
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-03T09:23:47Z
dc.date.available2021-03-03T09:23:47Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-26
dc.description.abstractThe 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.issn2341-2542es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/32049
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001884es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers in Economic Historyen
dc.relation.ispartofseries21-06
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.subject.jelI00
dc.subject.jelN30
dc.subject.jelO15
dc.subject.jelO50
dc.subject.otherInequalityen
dc.subject.otherWell-Beingen
dc.subject.otherLife Expectancyen
dc.subject.otherSchoolingen
dc.subject.otherCivil And Political Libertiesen
dc.subject.otherGDPen
dc.subject.otherAugmented Human Developmenten
dc.titleInequality beyond GDP: a long viewen
dc.typeworking paper*
dspace.entity.typePublication
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