所得不平等が主観的健康に及ぼす影響

抄録

In this paper we estimate the effect of income inequality on self-rated health in Japan based on two nationwide surveys. We confirm that prefecture-level income inequality affects self-rated health assessment by individuals, even after controlling for a set of both individual and regional factors. Especially, we find that income inequality have a substantial influence on the elderly and women. In addition, we examine the robustness of the estimation results by using other inequality measures than the Gini coefficient.