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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: INCOME INEQUALITY'S EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH

de Medeiros, Ian
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5120-1967
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501192214441628

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2017, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
Despite the large number of papers that investigate the linkage between income inequality and physical health, research on the linkage between income inequality and mental health has been sparse. Furthermore, the mental health and income inequality literature focuses primarily on national- and state-level income inequality, generally ignoring the sub-state level. I attempt to fill this gap in the literature by combining mental health and demographic data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with state and county income data samples from the U.S. Census Bureau in order to investigate the effect of county-level income inequality on individual mental health. Results indicate that county-level income inequality has modest non-linear effects on individual mental health, with more equal counties being affected more by increases in inequality and increases in income inequality in unequal counties may even improve individual mental health. However, after controlling for unobservable individual characteristics, income inequality has no effect on mental health suggesting that previous models in the literature are inadequate.
Melissa Thomasson (Committee Chair)
46 p.
Economics
Income Inequality; Mental Health; Relative Deprivation

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  • de Medeiros, I. (2017). KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: INCOME INEQUALITY'S EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501192214441628

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • de Medeiros, Ian. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: INCOME INEQUALITY'S EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH. 2017. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501192214441628.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • de Medeiros, Ian. "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: INCOME INEQUALITY'S EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501192214441628

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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