State Level Income Inequality and Individual Self-Reported Health Status: Evidence from the United States
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Keywords
Gini Coefficient; Health Inequality; Income Inequality; Self-reported Health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2016-07-30 (Health Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2016-07-30 (Public Economics)
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