Health and income iequality: attempting to avoid the aggregation problem

J. Wildman; H. Gravelle; Matthew Adam Sutton

doi:10.1080/0003684032000056805

Health and income iequality: attempting to avoid the aggregation problem

J. Wildman, H. Gravelle, Matthew Adam Sutton

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Attempts to test the relative deprivation hypothesis, that income inequality affects individual health, are subject to the aggregation problem. Waldmann (Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, 1992) ingeniously attempts to overcome the difficulty by using income data for the poor and the share of income accruing to the rich. The study finds that his results do not hold for a more recent data set and it suggests that his method may not overcome the aggregation problem.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	999-1004
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Economics
Volume	35
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0003684032000056805
Publication status	Published - 2003

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MORTALITY

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