Income Inequality and Health Status in the United State: Evidence from the Current Population Survey.

Several recent studies have identified an association between income inequality and aggregate health outcomes; this has been taken to be evidence that inequality is detrimental to individual health. We use data from the 1995-99 March Current Population Survey to examine the effect of income inequali...

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Published in:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 510 - 540
Main Authors: Mellor, Jennifer M., Milyo, Jeffrey
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Summer2002
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