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distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344097
the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary...
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distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …-health’s contribution to income inequality is difficult to gauge. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life could be an important … mechanism through which health may generate and possibly sustain economic inequality. If material advantage can be exercised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025328
We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an … long-run inequality depends on the economic variable we use to build our inequality measure, on the infectiousness of the … disease, and on whether we address individual or group measures of inequality. Under our calibration, if the share of …
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disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …
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, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its' trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine … particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). I find high and rising levels of global air quality inequality. The global PM2 …
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