Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Health improvements impact income inequality

MAP20220017534

Health improvements impact income inequality / Rainer Kotschy

Sumario: This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in the United States over the period 19602000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the sharp decline in cardiovascular disease mortality across states that originated from medical advances in the treatment and prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality through mechanisms related to education.

En: The Journal of the economics of ageing . - Oxford : Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2021-. - 06/06/2022 Volumen 22 - 2022 , 7 p.

1. Salud . 2. Envejecimiento . 3. Desigualdades sociales . I. Title.