TY  - JOUR
AU  - Currie, Janet
AU  - Schwandt, Hannes
AU  - Thuilliez, Josselin
TI  - Pauvreté, Egalité, Mortalité: Mortality (In)Equality in France and the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 24623
PY  - 2018
Y2  - May 2018
DO  - 10.3386/w24623
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24623
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24623.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Janet Currie
Department of Economics
Center for Health and Wellbeing
185A Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu

Hannes Schwandt
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, Il 60208
E-Mail: schwandt@northwestern.edu

Josselin Thuilliez
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne,
75013 Paris, France
E-Mail: josselin.thuilliez@univ-paris1.fr
AB  - We develop a method to compare levels and trends in inequality in mortality in the United States and France in a similar framework.  The comparison shows that while income inequality has increased in both the United States and France, inequality in mortality in France remained remarkably low and stable.  In the United States, inequality in mortality increased for older groups (especially women) while it decreased for children and young adults.  These patterns highlight the fact that despite the strong cross-sectional relationship between income and health, there is no necessary connection between changes in income inequality and changes in health inequality.
ER  -