Konferenzbeitrag
A household-based Human Development Index
The most limiting weakness of the human development index (HDI) is that it looks only at average achievements and does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country or population subgroups. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household level. This paper provides a method and illustration for calculating the HDI at the household level. This immediately allows the analysis of the HDI by any kind of population subgroups and by household socioeconomic characteristics. Furthermore, it allows to apply any kind of inequality measure to the HDI across population subgroups and over time. We illustrate our approach for 15 developing countries. We find large inequalities within countries between population subgroups, particularly by income, location, and education of the household head. We also find considerable inequality when looking at inequality measures like the Theil or the Gini coefficient; within-group inequality is, however, invariably larger than between-group inequality and inequality in the HDI within countries is of similar order of magnitude of inequality in the HDI between countries.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Empirical Studies of Inequality ; No. E4-V2
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: General
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Household Analysis: General
- Subject
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Human Development Index
Income Inequality
Differential Mortality
Inequality in Education
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Harttgen, Kenneth
Klasen, Stephan
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Veröffentlichung
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Verein für Socialpolitik
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Frankfurt a. M.
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2010
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Konferenzbeitrag
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- Harttgen, Kenneth
- Klasen, Stephan
- Verein für Socialpolitik
Time of origin
- 2010
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