کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
961882 929965 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area of residence. The policy was implemented in a way that provides a source of plausibly random variation in initial location. The results reveal no statistically significant effect of income inequality on the risk of being hospitalized. This finding holds also for most population subgroups and when separating between different types of diagnoses. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 31, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 617-629
نویسندگان
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