Stephen Younger

Publications (3)0.81 Total impact

• Article: The joint demand for health care, leisure, and commodities: Implications for health care finance and access in Vietnam

  Stephen D. Younger, Chad Meyerhoefer, David Sahn
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  ABSTRACT: This paper explores linkages between the demand for health care providers and the consumption of food, non-food goods, and leisure in Vietnam, using a mixed continuous/discrete dependent variable model. Cross-price elasticities calculated from the model suggest there are strong substitution effects between health care, leisure, and certain commodities. The model allows us to explore the implications of replacing user fees with alternative forms of health care finance, such as commodity taxes. In particular, the results suggest financing public health care services with a non-food sales tax rather than user fees would be more progressive and would improve access to care.
  The Journal of Development Studies. 01/2007; 43(8):1475-1500.
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  Article: Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter?

  Stephen D. Younger, David Sahn
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  ABSTRACT: The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional changes uses only one measure of well-being – income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children’s health and nutrition using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in the mean level of heights, not changes in distribution, account for most improvements in heights. Unlike the literature on income inequality, however, there is a positive association between improvements in average heights and reduced dispersion of those heights. Copyright Springer 2005
  The Journal of Economic Inequality 02/2005; 3(2):125-143. · 0.81 Impact Factor
• Article: Making Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons

  Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, Stephen Younger
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  ABSTRACT: This paper analyses how we can comparepoverty using multidimensional indicators of living standards. It #rst reviews the methods that have been proposed to take into account family size and other discrete indicators of family well-being in the comparisons of poverty. It then extends these methods to the case of continuous multidimensional indicators of living standards. In both of these cases, it is shown how to check whether the comparisons arerobust to the choiceofpoverty indices and poverty lines. The sampling distribution ofthe required estimators is then derived. The results are illustrated using LSMS data from Viet Nam and Ghana. Keywords Multidimensional Poverty, Stochastic Dominance. This researchwas supported, in part, by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from the Fonds FCAR of the Province of Qu#bec. Corresponding addresses: Jean-Yves Duclos: D#partement d'#conomique, Pavillon de S#ve, Universit # Laval, Qu#bec, Cana...
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