Salas Ortiz, Andrea orcid.org/0000-0003-1839-096X and Jones, Andrew Michael orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-1785 (2024) Inequality of opportunity in the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico. Health Economics. pp. 2342-2380. ISSN 1057-9230
Abstract
This paper proposes a pseudo-birth-cohort approach to deal with a lack of longitudinal data to measure health inequities over time. Using Roemer's framework for inequality of opportunity, this study measures ex-ante and ex-post inequalities in malnutrition, a concept that spans both sides of the nutrition continuum. The total contribution of observed circumstances and the direct contribution of observed efforts to the variation of malnutrition are disentangled for people born between 1983 and 1988 in Mexico. Results indicate that inequality of opportunity has been persistent across this 30-year lifespan for that cohort. Some evidence suggests that a lack of opportunities has been transmitted from parents to children and that people's circumstances account for most of the explained variation in the double burden of malnutrition. However, stratifying the analysis by sex shows that efforts account for more of the explained variation of inequality of opportunity for women in their middle adulthood than for men in most of the outcomes analyzed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s) |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2024 01:01 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4870 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/hec.4870 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213142 |
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