Conference Presentations by Anil Methipara
This paper develops a panel regression model to study the relationship between income inequality ... more This paper develops a panel regression model to study the relationship between income inequality and population health indicators in developing countries. Previous studies for developing countries have failed to estimate this relationship with adequate control variables. In this study, I test whether a developing country's income inequality is correlated with its life expectancy at birth or infant mortality rate after controlling for country and time fixed effects, average income levels, female education, and public health spending. A full sample of 102 countries and four sub-samples of low income (28 countries), middle income (46 countries), low and lower-middle income (56 countries) and low and middle income countries (74 countries) from the time period 1996 to 2007 were used to estimate this correlation. Contrary to the predictions of the Absolute Income Hypothesis and the previous developing country panel data studies, my results show no correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth or infant mortality rate. These results provide preliminary evidence that income inequality does not predict population health outcomes in developing countries. Furthermore, they suggest that results from previous developing country panel data studies were biased due to omitted variables.
Papers by Anil Methipara
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Conference Presentations by Anil Methipara
Papers by Anil Methipara