Health and income inequality: Attempting to avoid the aggregation problem

Applied Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 999-1004

  Wildman, John ^a   Gravelle, Hugh ^b   Sutton, Matthew ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037633963     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684032000056805     Document Type: Article

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