Class Id: 10237
Days: M
Start Time: 01:00 PM
End Time: 04:00 PM
Building: ROBEH
Room: 015
Course Id: 4588
Departments and Numbers: POP 504, WWS 564
Area:
Title: Poverty, Inequality and Health in the World
Description: About well-being throughout the world, with focus on income and health. Explores what happened to poverty, inequality, and health, in the US, and internationally. Discusses conceptual foundations of national and global measures of inequality, poverty, and health; construction of measures, and extent to which they can be trusted; relationship between globalization, poverty, and health, historically and currently. Examines links between health and income, why poor people are less healthy and live less long than rich people.
Prerequisites: WWS 507 and 511. Please see instructor to apply for enrollment.
Professors: Angus S. Deaton
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