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Article: Deaton.(Brief Article)

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March 22, 2000
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Deaton presents a model that attempts to integrate the relationship between income and mortality with the relationship between inequality and mortality. He postulates that individual health is affected negatively by relative deprivation within a reference group, defined as the total "weight" of incomes of group members who are better off than the individual. Deaton argues that this model is consistent with what we know about how social ...

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