Molini, V. and Nube, M. and Boom, B. (2010) Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure: Applications at Macro and Micro Levels. World Development, 38 (7). pp. 1012-1023.
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Abstract
We explore the suitability of the adult Body Mass Index (BMI) to measure health and nutritional inequalities between and within households. The paper applies a macro analysis comparing female BMIs at the country level and a micro-analysis comparing females’ and males’ BMI in Vietnam. At macro level, we estimated an analogue of the Kuznets curve finding a U-shaped relation between development (Human Development Index) and health and nutritional inequality (female BMI). At micro level, we use the panel data characteristics of the Vietnam dataset and show how income improvements registered in the 1990s benefited males considerably more than females.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Body Mass Index, Health and nutritional inequality, Kuznets’ curve, Gender bias, Asia, Vietnam |
| Author Affiliation: | VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Arbind Seth |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2013 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2013 10:22 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.12.003 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9673 |
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