Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data

by Nicholas Eberstadt, Sally Satel

Overview

The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income-not poverty per se-is bad for people's health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780844771694
Publisher:	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Pages:	54
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	iv
	Acknowledgments	v
1	Introduction	1
2	Origins of the Inequality Hypothesis	4
3	Research Studies	6
	Aggregate Data Studies	6
	Individual-Level Analyses	10
	Questions of Causation	11
	Ecological Fallacy	14
	Other Perspectives	19
	Causal Mechanisms	20
	Replicability of Results	22
	Studies of Health in Human and Animal Social Hierarchies	27
	Social Position	28
	Social Cohesion and Social Capital	30
	Socioeconomics Gets into the Body	31
4	Conclusion	35
	Notes	37
	About the Authors	45