Sensitive periods and first difference models: Integrating etiologic thinking into econometric techniques: A commentary on Clarkwest's "Neo-materialist theory and the temporal relationship between income inequality and longevity change"

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1895-1902

  Glymour, M Maria ^a,b  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Ecological exposures; Economic structure; First difference models; Fixed effects models; Health determinants; Income inequality; Longevity; USA; Wilkinson hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; ETIOLOGY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41249103855     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.12.035     Document Type: Note

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