Re: Re:death & income

[Bill Burgess <burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wilkinson kicked a lot of this work off, using Luxemburg Income Study data
to compare inequality and mortality in a dozen or so countries.The data
points available then seemed to fit the income inequality increases
mortality relation, but data for additional countires that has become
available makes this relation less obvious.

Lynch shows there is a strong relation _within_ the US, i.e. mortality is
higher in both states and cities that have more unequal incomes. If income
inequality kills people, the US is the best example.

Bill




 At 06:22 PM 27/02/01 -0500, you wrote:
> J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
>
> >       Well, my quick off-the-cuff international
> > regression suggests that this generalization
> > of Jencks's is not true, even if it might be true
> > within some countries.   Thus, the US has
> > a lower life expectancy than Japan and the
> > European social democracies that are at
> > similar levels of per capita income.  But, this
> > might not prove to be statistically significant,
> > even if Auntie Deirdre says not to worry.
>
> Whatever you think about Jencks, he's extremely careful with his numbers.
> I'm told that he approaches every research question with no preconceptions
> - he lets his regressions do the talking. Which is another way of saying
> that he's rather apolitical, though his bias is quasi-Fabian aristo-liberal.
>
> Doug