Re: Re: Re:death & income

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is the matter with Wilkinson's work.  I was impressed by his book.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:56:08PM -0800, Bill Burgess wrote:
> 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
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>   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
> >
>

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