Well, my quick off-the-cuff international
regression suggests that this generalization
of Jencks's is not true, even if it might be true
within some countries. Thus, the US has
a lower life expectancy than Japan and the
European social democracies that are at
similar levels of per capita income. But, this
might not prove to be statistically significant,
even if Auntie Deirdre says not to worry.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:8479] death & income
>[was: Re: [PEN-L:8477] Re: Re: Re: Re: More privatisation]
>
>At 10:54 AM 2/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>My beloved's uncle is Christopher Jencks. I hear that Jencks is currently
>>working on the relation between income distribution and health indicators,
>>and is finding that it doesn't exist. He hasn't published anything yet,
>>and I haven't had the chance to talk to him about it, but I'm going to get
>>on the case very soon.
>
>I've heard that the rich die of _different_ causes (such as Lipitor
>deprivation) than the poor (e.g., poisoning by toxic waste dumps).
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>
