Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash.

نویسندگان

  • Angus Deaton
  • Darren Lubotsky
چکیده

Deaton and Lubotsky (2003) found that the robust positive relationship across American cities between mortality and income inequality became small, insignificant, and/or non-robust once they controlled for the fraction of each city's population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., & Robinson D. Inequality, race, and mortality in US cities: a political and econometric review. Social Science and Medicine, 2009) consider alternative weighting schemes and show that in one of our specifications, in one data period, and with one of their alternative weighting schemes, income inequality is estimated to be a risk factor. All of our other specifications, as well as their own preferred specification, replicate our original result, which is supported by the weight of the evidence. Conditional on fraction black, there is no evidence for an effect of income inequality on mortality.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Social science & medicine

دوره 68 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009