Goesling, Brian; Firebaugh, Glenn - In: Population and Development Review 30 (2004) 1, pp. 131-146
Estimates of average life expectancy for 169 countries are used to compute the trend in between-country health inequality from 1980 to 2000. Results show that inequality in the distribution of life expectancy across countries declined in the 1980s, but then increased through the 1990s. The...