Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis: A Doctrine in Search of Data

by Nick Eberstadt and Sally L. Satel, M.D., HS ’88, lecturer in psychiatry (AEI Press) While a number of recent studies suggest that inequality in income—not poverty per se—is bad for people’s health, the rich included, this volume offers another view of this hypothesis. By controlling relevant variables, the authors suggest that income distribution is less a determinant of population health than the inequality hypothesis would suggest.