Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2010 - This version: March 2011
Health is an important dimension of welfare comparisons across individuals, regions or states. In the following paper … we focus on the question whether the health status between geographical subunits (local communities) converged …/diverged in the time period 1969 - 2004 in Austria. We use age standardized mortality rates as indicators for the health status …