Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247061 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 131
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper provides a long-run view of well-being inequality at world scale based on a new historical dataset. Trends in social dimensions alter the view on inequality derived from per capita GDP. While in terms of income, inequality increased until the third quarter of the twentieth century; in terms of well-being, inequality fell steadily since World War I. The spread of mass primary education and the health transitions were its main drivers. The gap between the West and the Rest explains only partially the evolution of well-being inequality, as the dispersion within the developing regions has increasingly determined its evolution.
Subjects: 
Well-being
Inequality
Life Expectancy
Health Transition
Education
per capita GDP
JEL: 
I00
N30
O15
O50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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