Exploring Contingent Inequalities: Building the Theoretical Health Inequality Model
| Autor: | Reed F. Beall, Michael Wolfson, Steve Gribble |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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education.field_of_study Inequality Welfare economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population Health equity Economic inequality Permanent income hypothesis 0502 economics and business 050207 economics Positive economics Lorenz curve Empirical evidence education 050205 econometrics Mathematics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies ISBN: 9783319322810 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-32283-4_17 |
| Popis: | There is considerable controversy whether a population’s extent of income inequality (not just individual income levels) affects a population’s health. Very provocative evidence is provided by a comparison of Canadian and US cities. There is a clear correlation in the US between city-level income inequality and working age mortality. But highly comparable data for Canada show no correlation. One hypothesis is that this major observed difference is due to greater income segregation (in turn highly correlated with racial segregation) in US cities compared to Canada. In this chapter, we develop and present an agent-based model called the Theoretical Health Inequality Model (THIM). THIM embodies a theory of this correlation wherein it is contingent on a range of factors that are plausibly important, and that differ between Canada and the US in empirically verifiable ways. Drawing on both empirical evidence and various social science theoretical work, we posit a formal algorithmic structure for THIM, and then a set of parameters reflecting the “stylized facts” for Canada and the US. The focus of this chapter is on the development of THIM as an agent-based model, including its conceptualization, and the realization of these concepts as a virtual in silico laboratory for simulation experiments and hypothesis exploration. |
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