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Absolute income, relative income, income inequality, and mortality

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Summary, in English

We test whether mortality is related to individual income, mean community income, and community income inequality, controlling for initial health status and personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample from the adult Swedish population of more than 40, 000 individuals who were followed up for 10-17 years. We find that mortality decreases significantly as individual income increases. For mean community income and community income inequality we cannot, however, reject the null hypothesis of no effect on mortality. This result is stable with respect to a number of measurement and specification issues explored in an extensive sensitivity analysis.

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

228-247

Publication/Series

Journal of Human Resources

Volume

39

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Topic

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Status

Published

Research group

  • Health Economics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-166X