Re: Re: Re: death & income

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Doug,
      Well, I don't know exactly what Jencks is doing
or what he has found, and I gather that you don't
exactly either.  So, I guess we should all wait and see.
I was just noting that it might be possible to find no
such relation within one or another country, but then
find it across countries, where it looks like it might
hold, although that would require further study, which
I am not about to do right now.
     For the record, it was not my intention to impugn
Jencks personally or professionally in any way, even
if he is some kind of relative of yours....
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:23 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:8499] Re: Re: death & income


>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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