5 May
2006
5 May
'06
2:21 p.m.
this one I like more than Dan. the colloquial part adds a little
attitude, but it seems appropriate.
(i'm assuming you got to this abstract by first doing a replication, but
its good that you found a way to generalize it.)
Gary
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Dan Hopkins wrote:
Sounds like it will be a neat paper--and generally,
the core message of
the abstract seems quite clear. The title echoes that message and is
quite clear as well but perhaps a bit too colloquial. Other than that, my
main recommendation is to discuss the dataset a bit, so that people know
the population under discussion. From reaidng the below, people might not
know if you are talking about countries, US cities, states (the truth,
right?), counties, etc. The abstract is a littany of failed potential
mechanisms, and that helps make the point, but you might summarize the
hypotheses a bit more quickly in order to talk a bit more about the data
(and perhaps methods) that are allowing you to draw these conclusions.
Best,
Dan
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Lucy Barnes wrote:
There is no pathway by which income inequality
affects health (but
somehow it does?)
There is a seemingly robust negative association between the level of
income inequality of a population and its health outcomes. Yet there has
been little investigation of any of the theorized mechanisms for why
this is the case. Using hierarchical models of individuals nested within
states, I find no evidence that income inequality affects health due to
relative material deprivation, nor adverse psycho-social effects on the
badly-off. Nor do I find support for the contention that the social
disintegration caused by inequality mediates the association. I find no
evidence either that racial composition has effects on health via social
cohesion. This places the burden of proof on the shoulders of the
defenders of the `income inequality hypothesis' to demonstrate causation
or consider other channels by which inequality might make its effect, to
counter the charge that the association is spurious.
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