Income Inequality, Social Capital and Mortality: Re-examining the State-Level Data

Jeffrey Milyo and Ira Parnerkar

No 309, Working Papers from Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

Abstract: Recent studies of the association between inequality, social capital and mortality at the state level rely on idiosyncratic measures of state social capital. We demonstrate that these statistical associations are sensitive to the methods used to calculate state social capital.

Keywords: income inequality; social capital; mortality; state-level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-07
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