Re: Re: Income Inequality and Health

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Guy wrote:

>
> I'd say (2). Doesn't racism have effects on health status (through
> judgments made in health care, and perhaps through other routes - surely I've
> read
> of big race-based differences in treatment for acute heart problems in the US)?
>
> Racism and race relations in the US do take distinctive forms, and that could
> well explain US exceptionalism on the [apparent] Wilkinson effect.

In other studies, inequality is a major factor, even after accounting for race.

> As for
> (3), if
> percent black is knocking out direct measures of income inequality in
> the
> regression, then even if it were proxying for something else, that
> 'something
> else' is knocking out income inequality, which doesn't suggest support
> for the
> Wilkinson effect even in the US case.
>

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