Revisiting Health and Income Inequality Relationship:Evidence from Developing Countries
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Keywords
Health; Fixed Effects; Income Inequality; Random Effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
- O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2012-07-14 (Health Economics)
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