Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Leigh, Andrew ^a   Jencks, Christopher ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Homicide; Inequality; Mortality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; TAX INCENTIVE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; IRELAND; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOCIETY; SUICIDE; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; TAX; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CLASS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BENELUX; CANADA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; IRELAND; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845465561     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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