Trial reportSocial science & medicine (1982)2016
The effects of community income inequality on health: Evidence from a randomized control trial in the Bolivian Amazon.
Trial report in Social science & medicine (1982), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Lifetime socioeconomic determinants of health trajectories among older adults.Advances in life course research · 2021Article
- The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: Experimental evidence from the Bolivian Amazon.Journal of development effectiveness · 2021Article
- Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age: lasting effects and catch-up growth among native Amazonians in Bolivia.Annals of human biology · 2018Article
- Uncovering the hidden impacts of inequality on mental health: a global study.Translational psychiatry · 2018Article
- Income Inequality and US Children's Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Distinct Associations by Race-Ethnicity.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017Article
- Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality: Longitudinal evidence from native Amazonians in Bolivia.Economics and human biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Research suggests that poorer people have worse health than the better-off and, more controversially, that income inequality harms health. But causal interpretations suffer from endogeneity. We addressed the gap by using a randomized control trial among a society of forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon. Treatments included one-time unconditional income transfers (T1) to all households and (T2) only to the poorest 20% of households, with other villages as controls. We assessed the effects of income inequality, absolute income, and spillovers within villages on self-reported health, objective indicators of health and nutrition, and adults' substance consumption. Most effects came from relative income. Targeted transfers increased the perceived stress of participants in better-off households. Evidence suggests increased work efforts among better-off households when the lot of the poor improved, possibly due to a preference for rank preservation. The study points to new paths by which inequality might affect health.
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