Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-4, pp. 1-56
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality slightly increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …