Allen, Jeffrey; Chakraborty, Shankha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
-looking aspirations -- people value their consumption relative to the conditional mean of those above them in the distribution. Their … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show … that inequality has a weaker effect on population health, explaining an empirical puzzle on the relative income and health …