Department of Economics, Glendon College, York University, Canada.
Demography. 2009 Nov;46(4):805-25. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0071.
We examine the effect of income inequality on individuals' self-rated health status in a pooled sample of 11 countries, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel survey. Taking advantage of the longitudinal and cross-national nature of our data, and carefully modeling the self-reported health information, we avoid several of the pitfalls suffered by earlier studies on this topic. We calculate income inequality indices measured at two standard levels of geography (NUTS-0 and NUTS-1) and find consistent evidence that income inequality is negatively related to self-rated health status in the European Union for both men and women, particularly when measured at national level. However, despite its statistical significance, the magnitude of the impact of inequality on health is very small.
我们利用欧洲共同体住户调查的纵向数据，在 11 个国家的综合样本中检验了收入不平等对个人自评健康状况的影响。利用我们数据的纵向和跨国性质，并仔细模拟自我报告的健康信息，我们避免了之前在这一主题上研究中存在的几个缺陷。我们计算了在两个标准地理水平（NUTS-0 和 NUTS-1）上衡量的收入不平等指数，发现有一致的证据表明，在欧盟，收入不平等与男性和女性的自评健康状况呈负相关，特别是在国家层面上衡量时更是如此。然而，尽管不平等对健康的影响具有统计学意义，但它的影响程度非常小。
