Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872–2000

Is income inequality decreasing in Brazil?

Spatial Analysis of Regional Income Inequality

Questions surrounding regional economic convergence have commanded a great deal of recent attention in economics literature. As in other recent cases in the social sciences, the application of spatially explicit methods of data analysis to the convergence question has yielded important insights on regional economic growth. By contrast, the literature on regional income inequality, although some...

Cause-specific mortality and income inequality in São Paulo, Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To analyze cause-specific mortality rates according to the relative income hypothesis. METHODS All 96 administrative areas of the city of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, were divided into two groups based on the Gini coefficient of income inequality: high (≥0.25) and low (<0.25). The propensity score matching method was applied to control for confounders associated with socioeconomi...

Income inequality and homicide rates in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

OBJECTIVES This study determined the effect of income inequality on homicide rates in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. METHODS We conducted an ecological study at 2 geographical levels, municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro and administrative regions in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The association between homicide and income inequality was tested by multiple regression proc...

Modelling health, income and income inequality: the impact of income inequality on health and health inequality.

A framework is developed to analyse the impact of the distribution of income on individual health and health inequality, with individual health modelled as a function of income and the distribution of income. It is demonstrated that the impact of income inequality can generate non-concave health production functions resulting in a non-concave health production possibility frontier. In this cont...