Evaluating disparities in healthcare outcomes is not an easy task for policy makers. This requires access to outcome indicators at the patient level. Patient level data are not easily available because of privacy considerations and costs of collection. One approach to assess health disparities...

This study is an empirical examination of socio-economic determinants of corruption in US states. Using the data on state-by-state number of corruption convictions from the US Department of Justice as the dependent variable, socio-economic factors such as income inequality, education level and...