PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ulf-G. Gerdtham
AU  - Magnus Johannesson
TI  - Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality, and Mortality
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.1.228
DP  - 2004 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 228--247
VI  - XXXIX
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/1/228.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/1/228.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2004 Jan 01; XXXIX
AB  - We test whether mortality is related to individual income, mean community income, and community income inequality, controlling for initial health status and personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample from the adult Swedish population of more than 40,000 individuals who were followed up for 10–17 years. We find that mortality decreases significantly as individual income increases. For mean community income and community income inequality we cannot, however, reject the null hypothesis of no effect on mortality. This result is stable with respect to a number of measurement and specification issues explored in an extensive sensitivity analysis.