Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236677 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9135
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is inversely related to body mass, however positively related to weight. Because weight increased with age and age inequality, the majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual’s control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality. Subsequently, current and cumulative net nutrition are related to inequality and increased across BMI and weight distributions.
Subjects: 
body mass
stature
and weight inequality
current and cumulative net nutrition
JEL: 
I10
I14
I30
I32
N11
N12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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