Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China

Hongbin Li and Yi Zhu

No DP2006-07, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier literature has drawn on data from developed countries in studying the association between the two. We find that self-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Health; Income; Income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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