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"Equality of What? Evidence from India" 
 
      BY:  DAVID E. SAHN 
              Cornell University - Department of Economics 
 
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Paper ID:  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program Working 
           Paper No. 156 
    Date:  November 2003 
 
 Contact:  DAVID E. SAHN 
   Email:  Mailto:David.Sahn at Cornell.edu 
  Postal:  Cornell University - Department of Economics 
           Div. of Nutrition, Food & Nutrition Policy Program 
           3M12 MVR Hall 
           Ithaca, NY 14853  UNITED STATES 
   Phone:  607-255-8093 
     Fax:  607-255-0178 
 
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 Contact Philip Neuwirth, Program Manager, Cornell Food and 
 Nutrition Policy Program, at Mailto:pgn1 at cornell.edu or Postal: 
 Cornell University, Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, 
 3M12 MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. Phone: 607-255-8093, Fax: 
 607-255-0178. 
 
ABSTRACT: 
 This paper explores univariate health inequality in India using 
 a representative sample of pre-school age children. I make 
 comparisons, both spatially between states, and 
 inter-temporally, to both illustrate the methods for measuring 
 and decomposing health inequality, while providing some 
 interesting empirical findings on health inequality. The results 
 suggest that the changes in the distribution of height are less 
 important than the changes in the mean values, when explaining 
 the evolution of the nutrition poverty index over time in India. 
 However, I also observe that the level of stunted growth would 
 be reduced markedly among the various Indian states if the 
 distribution of heights corresponded to the pattern that exists 
 in Kerala, where health of children is relatively equally 
 distributed. In addition, I compare the health inequality 
 results to income inequality figures reported elsewhere, and 
 find no correlation. 
 
 
JEL Classification: D63, I12, O15 
 
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