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Author: Eichenlaub, Suzanne C.
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Income Inequality and Health: A Multilevel Analysis Investigating Interactions with (Non)Metropolitan Status, Sex, Income and Race/Ethnicity Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=71806 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Income Level; Racial Differences; Rural/Urban Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using year 2000 data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the U.S. population census summary tape files, I conduct a multilevel analysis to assess the impact of county-level income inequality on self-rated health in the U.S. Additionally, I examine whether the effect of income inequality on health varies by selected characteristics of individuals, as suggested by prior research. I find no evidence of an independent effect of income inequality on health when appropriate control variables are included. And, while I find no significant variation in the effect of income inequality on health by gender, individual income or metropolitan status, I do find that the effect of inequality varies significantly by race/ethnicity. Specifically, I find that the racial/ethnic differentials in health, which are large under conditions of relative equality, converge as income inequality increases. At higher levels of income inequality, there are no statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in health. |
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Eichenlaub, Suzanne C. "Income Inequality and Health: A Multilevel Analysis Investigating Interactions with (Non)Metropolitan Status, Sex, Income and Race/Ethnicity." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |