Decomposing social indicators using distributional data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-139

  Bidani, Benu ^a   Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Health indicators of the poor; Public health spending and poverty; Random coefficient models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000477813     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(95)01809-3     Document Type: Article

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