The persistent correlations between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality in the US is well established. It has been demonstrated with various empirical models at different levels of analysis. However, there is no consensus on the relevant confounding factors or even the functional...

In this update to an earlier analysis using BMA, I consider both a wider variety and some recoded plausible controls that might affect the observed relationship between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality. I also suggest that the much of the empirical investigation of inequality...