Health, wealth and wisdom: Exploring multidimensional inequality in a developing country

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-323

  Nilsson, Therese ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Education; Expenditures; Health; Inequality indices; Land holdings; Multidimensional inequality; Stochastic dominance; Zambia

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ZAMBIA;

EID: 73449112269     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9461-6     Document Type: Article

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