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The relationship of income inequality to mortality: Does the choice of indicator matter?

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  1. Ki-tae Kim, 2019. "Which Income Inequality Influences Which Health Indicators? Analysis of the Income Inequality Hypothesis with Market and Disposable Gini Indicators," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 146(3), pages 473-485, December.
  2. Brent D. Beal & Marina Astakhova, 2017. "Management and Income Inequality: A Review and Conceptual Framework," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 142(1), pages 1-23, April.
  3. Tayyebe Azodi & Seyed Mohammad Javad Razmi & Ali Akbar Naji Meidani & Mohammad Ali Falahi, 2019. "The Effect of Public and Private Health Expenditures on Life Expectancy in Different Countries: Using Panel Data Model," International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR), International Hellenic University (IHU), Kavala Campus, Greece (formerly Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology - EMaTTech), vol. 12(1), pages 64-69, April.
  4. Bengt Starrin & Cecilia Åslund & Kent Nilsson, 2009. "Financial Stress, Shaming Experiences and Psychosocial Ill-Health: Studies into the Finances-Shame Model," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 91(2), pages 283-298, April.
  5. Mary C. Daly & Daniel J. Wilson, 2013. "Inequality and Mortality: New Evidence from U.S. County Panel Data," Working Paper Series 2013-13, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  6. Wong, Irene O.L. & Cowling, Benjamin J. & Lo, Su-Vui & Leung, Gabriel M., 2009. "A multilevel analysis of the effects of neighbourhood income inequality on individual self-rated health in Hong Kong," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 68(1), pages 124-132, January.
  7. Nyakundi M. Michieka & John Deal & Kyle Lahman, 2022. "Air pollution and income inequality: a spatial econometric approach," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 69(1), pages 1-31, August.
  8. Jennifer M. Mellor & Jeffrey Milyo, 2002. "Income Inequality and Health Status in the United States: Evidence from the Current Population Survey," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 37(3), pages 510-539.
  9. Raffaele Lagravinese & Paolo Liberati & Giuliano Resce, 2020. "Measuring Health Inequality in US: A Composite Index Approach," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 147(3), pages 921-946, February.
  10. Sebastian Baumeister & Georg Schomerus & Carsten-Oliver Schmidt & Franz Möckel & Neeltje den Berg & Wolfgang Hoffmann & Henry Völzke & Hans Grabe, 2015. "Change in depressive symptoms and mental health-related quality of life in northeast Germany between 1997–2001 and 2008–2012," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 60(1), pages 33-39, January.
  11. Robert P Kosilek & Sebastian E Baumeister & Till Ittermann & Matthias Gründling & Frank M Brunkhorst & Stephan B Felix & Peter Abel & Sigrun Friesecke & Christian Apfelbacher & Magdalena Brandl & Konr, 2019. "The association of intensive care with utilization and costs of outpatient healthcare services and quality of life," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(9), pages 1-15, September.
  12. Roberta Torre & Mikko Myrskylä, 2014. "Income inequality and population health: An analysis of panel data for 21 developed countries, 1975-2006," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(1), pages 1-13, March.
  13. Jennifer M. Mellor & Jeffrey Milyo, 1999. "Re-Examining the Evidence of an Ecological Association between Income Inequality and Health," Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University 9922, Department of Economics, Tufts University.
  14. Zheng, Hui, 2009. "Rising U.S. income inequality, gender and individual self-rated health, 1972-2004," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 69(9), pages 1333-1342, November.
  15. Ankur Singh & Jane Harford & José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes & Marco A Peres, 2018. "Area-level income inequality and oral health among Australian adults—A population-based multilevel study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(1), pages 1-17, January.
  16. Rostila, Mikael & Kölegård, Maria L. & Fritzell, Johan, 2012. "Income inequality and self-rated health in Stockholm, Sweden: A test of the ‘income inequality hypothesis’ on two levels of aggregation," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(7), pages 1091-1098.
  17. Li, Hongbin & Zhu, Yi, 2006. "Income, income inequality, and health: Evidence from China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 668-693, December.
  18. Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores & Bates, Lisa M. & Osypuk, Theresa L. & McArdle, Nancy, 2010. "The effect of immigrant generation and duration on self-rated health among US adults 2003-2007," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(6), pages 1161-1172, September.
  19. Subramanian, S.V. & Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores & Osypuk, Theresa L., 2005. "Racial residential segregation and geographic heterogeneity in black/white disparity in poor self-rated health in the US: a multilevel statistical analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(8), pages 1667-1679, April.
  20. Mert Akyuz & Ghislain Nono Gueye & Cagin Karul, 2022. "Long-run dynamics between trade liberalization and income inequality in the European Union: a second generation approach," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 49(3), pages 769-792, August.
  21. Nisar Ahmad & Shahbaz Khan, 2021. "Impact of Income Inequality on Health Status in South Asian Countries: A Panel Data Analysis," International Journal of Economics & Business Administration (IJEBA), International Journal of Economics & Business Administration (IJEBA), vol. 0(2), pages 205-219.
  22. Godoy, Ricardo & Byron, Elizabeth & Reyes-García, Victoria & Vadez, Vincent & Leonard, William R. & Apaza, Lilian & Huanca, Tomás & Pérez, Eddy & Wilkie, David, 2005. "Income inequality and adult nutritional status: Anthropometric evidence from a pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(5), pages 907-919, September.
  23. Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores & Pan, Jocelyn & Jun, Hee-Jin & Osypuk, Theresa L. & Emmons, Karen M., 2005. "The effect of immigrant generation on smoking," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(6), pages 1223-1242, September.
  24. Jonathan I. Levy & Susan L. Greco & Steven J. Melly & Neha Mukhi, 2009. "Evaluating Efficiency‐Equality Tradeoffs for Mobile Source Control Strategies in an Urban Area," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 29(1), pages 34-47, January.
  25. Song, Teresa, 2024. "Why did gender inequality lag GDP per capita and human development growth in Korea over 1976-1996?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122006, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  26. Brown, Paul & Guy, Melody & Broad, Joanna, 2005. "Individual socio-economic status, community socio-economic status and stroke in New Zealand: A case control study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(6), pages 1174-1188, September.
  27. Stelios Rozakis & Athanasios Kampas, 2022. "An interactive multi-criteria approach to admit new members in international environmental agreements," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 3461-3487, September.
  28. Masako Horino & Sze Yan Liu & Eun-Young Lee & Ichiro Kawachi & Roman Pabayo, 2020. "State-level income inequality and the odds for meeting fruit and vegetable recommendations among US adults," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(9), pages 1-15, September.
  29. Undurraga, Eduardo A. & Nica, Veronica & Zhang, Rebecca & Mensah, Irene C. & Godoy, Ricardo A., 2016. "Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality: Longitudinal evidence from native Amazonians in Bolivia," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 18-26.
  30. Mayer, Susan E. & Sarin, Ankur, 2005. "Some mechanisms linking economic inequality and infant mortality," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(3), pages 439-455, February.
  31. Maite Blázquez Cuesta & Elena Cottini & Herrarte, A. (Ainhoa), 2012. "GINI DP 39: Socioeconomic Gradient in Health: How Important is Material Deprivation?," GINI Discussion Papers 39, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.
  32. Peter Lindert, 2003. "Why The Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch," Working Papers 59, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
  33. Beáta Gavurová & Tatiana Vagašová, 2016. "Regional differences of standardised mortality rates for ischemic heart diseases in the Slovak Republic for the period 1996–2013 in the context of income inequality," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 1-12, December.
  34. Collyer, Taya A. & Smith, Katherine E., 2020. "An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 264(C).
  35. Dahl, Espen & Ivar Elstad, Jon & Hofoss, Dag & Martin-Mollard, Melissa, 2006. "For whom is income inequality most harmful? A multi-level analysis of income inequality and mortality in Norway," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 63(10), pages 2562-2574, November.
  36. Rocco, Lorenzo, 2014. "Trust me, you will be in better health," MPRA Paper 91657, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  37. Nakaya, Tomoki & Dorling, Danny, 2005. "Geographical inequalities of mortality by income in two developed island countries: a cross-national comparison of Britain and Japan," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(12), pages 2865-2875, June.
  38. Zheng, Hui, 2012. "Do people die from income inequality of a decade ago?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 36-45.
  39. Aida, Jun & Kondo, Katsunori & Kondo, Naoki & Watt, Richard G. & Sheiham, Aubrey & Tsakos, Georgios, 2011. "Income inequality, social capital and self-rated health and dental status in older Japanese," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 73(10), pages 1561-1568.
  40. Angus Deaton, 2003. "Health, Inequality, and Economic Development," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 41(1), pages 113-158, March.
  41. Ken Judge & Iain Paterson, 2001. "Poverty, Income Inequality and Health," Treasury Working Paper Series 01/29, New Zealand Treasury.
  42. Jiawen Huang, 2019. "Income Inequality, Distributive Justice Beliefs, and Happiness in China: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 142(1), pages 83-105, February.
  43. Siddiqi, Arjumand & Jones, Marcella K. & Erwin, Paul Campbell, 2015. "Does higher income inequality adversely influence infant mortality rates? Reconciling descriptive patterns and recent research findings," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 82-88.
  44. Xu, Ke Tom, 2006. "State-level variations in income-related inequality in health and health achievement in the US," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 63(2), pages 457-464, July.
  45. Rhys Andrews & Gene A. Brewer, 2010. "Social Capital and Fire Service Performance: Evidence from the U.S. States," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 91(2), pages 576-591, June.
  46. Yang, Tse-Chuan & Chen, Vivian Yi-Ju & Shoff, Carla & Matthews, Stephen A., 2012. "Using quantile regression to examine the effects of inequality across the mortality distribution in the U.S. counties," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(12), pages 1900-1910.
  47. Oshio, Takashi & Kobayashi, Miki, 2009. "Income inequality, area-level poverty, perceived aversion to inequality, and self-rated health in Japan," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 69(3), pages 317-326, August.
  48. Nilsson, Therese & Bergh, Andreas, 2012. "Income Inequality and Individual Health: Exploring the Association in a Developing Country," Working Papers 2012:1, Lund University, Department of Economics.
  49. Ram, Rati, 2005. "Income inequality, poverty, and population health: Evidence from recent data for the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(12), pages 2568-2576, December.
  50. Ioana Popovici & Manuel J. Carvajal & Patti Peeples & Silvia E. Rabionet, 2021. "Disparities in the Wage-and-Salary Earnings, Determinants, and Distribution of Health Economics, Outcomes Research, and Market Access Professionals: An Exploratory Study," PharmacoEconomics - Open, Springer, vol. 5(2), pages 319-329, June.
  51. Manuel J. Carvajal & Patti Peeples & Ioana Popovici, 2019. "A Probe into the Wages and Salaries of Health Economics, Outcomes Research, and Market Access Professionals," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 17(5), pages 741-751, October.
  52. Hou, Feng & Myles, John, 2005. "Neighbourhood inequality, neighbourhood affluence and population health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(7), pages 1557-1569, April.
  53. Tse-Chuan Yang & Leif Jensen, 2015. "Exploring the Inequality-Mortality Relationship in the US with Bayesian Spatial Modeling," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 34(3), pages 437-460, June.
  54. Eiji Mangyo & Albert Park, 2011. "Relative Deprivation and Health: Which Reference Groups Matter?," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 46(3), pages 459-481.
  55. Thayer Alshaabi & David R Dewhurst & James P Bagrow & Peter S Dodds & Christopher M Danforth, 2021. "The sociospatial factors of death: Analyzing effects of geospatially-distributed variables in a Bayesian mortality model for Hong Kong," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(3), pages 1-20, March.
  56. Chang, Virginia W. & Christakis, Nicholas A., 2005. "Income inequality and weight status in US metropolitan areas," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(1), pages 83-96, July.
  57. Rebeira, Mayvis & Grootendorst, Paul & Coyte, Peter C. & Aguirregabiria, Victor, 2017. "Does rising income inequality affect mortality rates in advanced economies?," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 11, pages 1-23.
  58. Oshio, Takashi & Kobayashi, Miki, 2010. "Income inequality, perceived happiness, and self-rated health: Evidence from nationwide surveys in Japan," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(9), pages 1358-1366, May.
  59. Rambotti, Simone, 2015. "Recalibrating the spirit level: An analysis of the interaction of income inequality and poverty and its effect on health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 123-131.
  60. Hutchinson, Rebbeca N. & Putt, Mary A. & Dean, Lorraine T. & Long, Judith A. & Montagnet, Chantal A. & Armstrong, Katrina, 2009. "Neighborhood racial composition, social capital and black all-cause mortality in Philadelphia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 68(10), pages 1859-1865, May.
  61. Chatty, Dawn & Mansour, Nisrine & Yassin, Nasser, 2013. "Bedouin in Lebanon: Social discrimination, political exclusion, and compromised health care," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 43-50.
  62. Parish, Susan L. & Rose, Roderick A. & Dababnah, Sarah & Yoo, Joan & Cassiman, Shawn A., 2012. "State-level income inequality and family burden of US families raising children with special health care needs," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(3), pages 399-407.
  63. Can Mavruk & Ersin Kıral & Gülsen Kıral, 2021. "Spatial Effects Over Time-Framed Happiness," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 517-554, February.
  64. Abir Majbauddin & Shinji Otani & Atsushi Tsunekawa & Nigussie Haregeweyn & Misganaw Teshager Abeje & Zerihun Nigussie & Intekhab Alam & Qing Qing & Toshio Masumoto & Youichi Kurozawa, 2020. "The Influence of Income and Livelihood Diversification on Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural Ethiopia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-12, April.
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  71. Muramatsu, Naoko & Yin, Hongjun & Hedeker, Donald, 2010. "Functional declines, social support, and mental health in the elderly: Does living in a state supportive of home and community-based services make a difference?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(7), pages 1050-1058, April.
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