RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Income Ineq uality a nd Healt h

["Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have his work in front of me, but I think it is more in the realm of
an ecological regression controlled for by individual variables.  Whether he
used the "state-of-the-art" approach like Hierachical Linear Modeling, I
don't recall, but he probably did "do it right" from the technical
econometric prespective.

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From: Jim Devine [mailto:jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Inequality a nd Healt h


right. I think one major point is that it's useful to do regressions (like
Mike Reich) of "ecological" independent variables vs. a "ecological"
dependent variable for SMSAs or some other geographical units, whereas (if
I understand it correctly), Deaton's result is "ecological" independent
variables" vs. individual dependent variables.


At 11:30 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, but it would be a lot more compelling to document evidence on the
>proximal link to health status.  The Deaton finding was kind of a big
>surprise, at least to him.  I think some follow-up work on this could be
>important.
>
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>Healt h
>
>
>At 09:43 AM 08/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >But figuring out what the
> >specific mechanisms that effect health status is tricky.  I can think of
a
> >number of candidates the fall under the Reich-type of phenomena.  A
higher
> >prevalence of dirty industries with low occupational health and safety
> >standards enforcement, ditto for environmental air pollution, more stress
> >and violence in general because of aggravated social conflict, more
tobacco
> >and alcohol use for the same reason, etc.
>
>the main mechanism of Reich's argument is political (including trade unions
>and the like). If there are wider gaps between black and white workers,
>it's harder to unite politically or to form effective trade unions (except
>narrow, craft-oriented, unions). This means that welfare-state programs and
>employer-supplied welfare programs (including health care) are weaker
>because of weaker working-class bargaining power.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine