List Of Illustrations | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Health And Wealth Disparities in the United States: A Brief Overview of the Literature | p. 4 |
Disparities in Health across Individuals | p. 4 |
Disparities in Wealth across Individuals | p. 7 |
Disparities in Health across States | p. 8 |
Disparities in Wealth across States | p. 9 |
Conclusions | p. 11 |
Historical Evolution of Health and Wealth Disparities | p. 13 |
Evolution of Health by Race | p. 13 |
Evolution of Wealth by Race | p. 18 |
Evolution of Health across States | p. 20 |
Evolution of Wealth across States | p. 22 |
Standard Measures of Health and Wealth Disparities across States | p. 23 |
Valuing Improvements in Health | p. 27 |
A Framework for Valuing Health Gains and Income Disparities | p. 27 |
Estimating Incomes and Health Gains | p. 29 |
Health and the Evolution of Economic Disparities | p. 31 |
Health and the Evolution of Economic Disparities across Races | p. 31 |
Health and the Evolution of Economic Disparities across States | p. 35 |
Conclusion | p. 44 |
Derivation Of Indirect Utility Functions | p. 46 |
Theory | p. 46 |
Parameterizing the Model | p. 48 |
Additional Illustrations | p. 50 |
Notes | p. 62 |
References | p. 63 |
About The Authors | p. 67 |
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