Assessing Aggregate Welfare: Growth and Inequality in Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa

doi:10.4067/s0717-68212001011300002

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“…In particular, we may expect an under-reporting of income among higher income groups. Previous research from Argentina suggests that this may be a problem, and this could result in an artificially shallow social gradients (Gasparini and Escudero 2001;Javier et al 1995). At the same time, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval error can also be expected in the income reporting of individuals involved in the informal economy.…”

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Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

Linetzky

Maio

Ferrante

et al. 2012

Int J Public Health

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Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

Linetzky

Maio

Ferrante

et al. 2012

Int J Public Health

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“…A possible explanation for this finding is that income distribution did not improve during the period of high economic growth (it actually deteriorated, see Cabrol et al, 2003), and that for some Argentineans the economic boom was accompanied by an increase of economic insecurity (this is consistent with the high level of the unemployment rate). In fact, Gasparini and Sosa Escudero (2001) find that there is a class of welfare functions that indicate that in Argentina social welfare deteriorated over the 1994-1998 period.…”

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Why Are Latin Americans So Unhappy About Reforms?

Panizza

Yañez

2005

Journal of Applied Economics

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This paper uses opinion surveys to document discontent with the pro-market reforms implemented by most Latin American countries during the 1990s. The paper also explores four possible sets of explanations for this discontent: (i) a general drift of the populace's political views to the left; (ii) an increase in political activism by those who oppose reforms; (iii) a decline in the people's trust of political actors; and (iv) the economic crisis. The paper's principal finding is that the macroeconomic situation plays an important role in explaining the dissatisfaction with the reform process. JEL classification codes: P16, O54

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“…In particular, we may expect an under-reporting of income among higher income groups. Previous research from Argentina suggests that this may be a problem (Javier et al 1995, Gasparini andEscudero 2001), and this could result in artificially low indicators of inequality. At the same time, error can also be expected in the income reporting of individuals involved in the informal economy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Extending the income inequality hypothesis: Ecological results from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys

Maio

Linetzky

Ferrante

et al. 2012

Global Public Health

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A consensus on income inequality as a social determinant of health is yet to be reached. In particular, we know little about the cross-sectional versus lagged effect of inequality and the robustness of the relationship to indicators that are sensitive to varying parts of the income spectrum. We test these issues with data from Argentina's 2005 and 2009 National Risk Factor Surveys. Inequality was operationalised at the provincial level with the Gini coefficient and the Generalised Entropy (GE) index. Population health was defined as the age-standardised percentage of adults with poor/fair self-rated health by province. Our cross-sectional results indicate a significant relationship between inequality (Gini) and poor health (r=0.58, p<0.01) in 2005. Using the GE index, a gradient pattern emerges in the correlation, and the r values increase as the index becomes sensitive to the top of the distribution. The relationship between 2005 inequality and 2009 health displays a similar pattern, but with generally smaller correlations than the 2005 cross-sectional results. Further advances in the income inequality and health literature require new theoretical models to account for how inequalities in different parts of the income spectrum may influence population health in different ways.

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Assessing Aggregate Welfare: Growth and Inequality in Argentina

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

Sex-stratified socio-economic gradients in physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes: evidence of short-term changes in Argentina

Why Are Latin Americans So Unhappy About Reforms?

Extending the income inequality hypothesis: Ecological results from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys

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