We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality slightly increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …

We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …

reduce health inequality. This effect undermines the traditional regressivity argument against the heavy taxation of …

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables …, endogenous regressors, and slope heterogeneity, we find that income inequality has, on average, a small, but robust and …