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Article: Do people die from income inequality of a decade ago?
Title | Do people die from income inequality of a decade ago? |
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Keywords | Discrete-time hazard model Income inequality Lagged effects Mortality risk USA |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Citation | Social Science and Medicine, 2012, v. 75, n. 1, p. 36-45 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The long-term impact of income inequality on health has not been fully explored in the current literature. Until now, 4 studies have examined the lagged effect on population/group mortality rate at the aggregate level, and 7 studies have investigated the effect of income inequality on subsequent individual mortality risk within a restricted time period. These 11 studies suffer from the same limitation: they do not simultaneously control for a series of preceding income inequalities. The results of these studies are also mixed. Using the U.S. National Health Interview Survey data 1986-2004 with mortality follow-up data 1986-2006 (. n = 701,179), this study investigates the lagged effects of national-level income inequality on individual mortality risk. These effects are tested by using a discrete-time hazard model where contemporaneous and preceding income inequalities are treated as time-varying person-specific covariates, which then track a series of income inequalities that a respondent faces from the survey year until s/he dies or is censored. Findings suggest that income inequality did not have an instantaneous detrimental effect on individual mortality risk, but began exerting its influence 5 years later. This effect peaked at 7 years, and then diminished after 12 years. This pattern generally held for three measures of income inequality: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index, and the Theil entropy index. The findings suggest that income inequality has a long-term detrimental impact on individual mortality risk. This study also explains discrepancies in the existant literature. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/334270 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.954 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zheng, Hui | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-20T06:46:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-20T06:46:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science and Medicine, 2012, v. 75, n. 1, p. 36-45 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/334270 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The long-term impact of income inequality on health has not been fully explored in the current literature. Until now, 4 studies have examined the lagged effect on population/group mortality rate at the aggregate level, and 7 studies have investigated the effect of income inequality on subsequent individual mortality risk within a restricted time period. These 11 studies suffer from the same limitation: they do not simultaneously control for a series of preceding income inequalities. The results of these studies are also mixed. Using the U.S. National Health Interview Survey data 1986-2004 with mortality follow-up data 1986-2006 (. n = 701,179), this study investigates the lagged effects of national-level income inequality on individual mortality risk. These effects are tested by using a discrete-time hazard model where contemporaneous and preceding income inequalities are treated as time-varying person-specific covariates, which then track a series of income inequalities that a respondent faces from the survey year until s/he dies or is censored. Findings suggest that income inequality did not have an instantaneous detrimental effect on individual mortality risk, but began exerting its influence 5 years later. This effect peaked at 7 years, and then diminished after 12 years. This pattern generally held for three measures of income inequality: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index, and the Theil entropy index. The findings suggest that income inequality has a long-term detrimental impact on individual mortality risk. This study also explains discrepancies in the existant literature. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science and Medicine | - |
dc.subject | Discrete-time hazard model | - |
dc.subject | Income inequality | - |
dc.subject | Lagged effects | - |
dc.subject | Mortality risk | - |
dc.subject | USA | - |
dc.title | Do people die from income inequality of a decade ago? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.042 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 22503559 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84860692567 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 75 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 36 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 45 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-5347 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000305111500006 | - |