The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et al. at
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1At. Their modeling
suggests it is not responsible for the observed relation between inequality
and health in the US.
Bill
01:54 PM 01/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Doug,
> I have not dug (sic) into this lit although I have seen
>some of it. I think the argument that there is some
>kind of nonlinear effect at the personal level is very
>reasonable and certainly could be responsible for a
>lot of the apparently conflicting results.
> In this regard, I think that one would be more likely
>to find stronger connections with the percent of people
>in poverty rather than with inequality per se, with all of
>this having to take into account the nature of the medical
>care system if one is doing cross-country studies.
>Barkley Rosser
