Health, Inequality, and Economic Development

By Angus Deaton. 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence. (2006, background): “We hope that this interpretation may bring us closer to the thinking of others working in this field and narrow the area of controversy (Deaton, 2003; Lynch et al., 2004a, b).”
Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality (2003, neutral): “ct+1 = [φ(ht)R] ct, (8) (1− σ)(ct) = φ0(ht) £ (ct+1) 1−σ + θ(bt+1)1−σ ¤ , (9)”
Income inequality, unemployment, and suicide: a panel data analysis of 15 European countries (2005, background): “Deaton (2001) found little evidence that inequality is a health risk.”
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development (2013, neutral): “…technology and fertility; de la Croix and Licandro (1999), Kalemli-Ozcan, Ryder and Weil (2000), and Boucekkine, de la Croix and Licandro (2002, 2003) for investigations of the role of mortality; and Aiyar, Dalgaard, and Moav (2008) for a modeling of technology dynamics in pre-transitional…”
Experimental economics: Where next? (2010, background): “Some widely cited references are Deaton (2003 p.27) cited 309 times, Tirole (2002, p.637) cited 58 times, Huck at al (2001, p. 11) cited 58 times, and Samuelson (2005a, p.70) cited 44 times.”
Economic Inequality and Its Socioeconomic Impact (2002, background): “In spite of the evidence presented above, however, Deaton (2001) finds that while income inequality is important, there is no conclusive evidence that it poses a direct risk to individual health because of the following mechanisms: (1) a nonlinearity between income level and health, (2)…”
The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “One argument, often referred to as the “neo‐materialist” hypothesis (Lynch, Smith, Kaplan, & House, 2000; see also Deaton, 2003), is that inequality is a manifestation of a greater system, which is tilted against the disadvantaged.”