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Obesity
Trust
Infant Mortality
Murder
Mental Illness
Imprisonment
Foreign Aid
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy
Judge 1995
Judge 1995
British Medical Journal
Mackenbach 2002
Deaton 2003
Lynch 2004
Leigh/Jencks 2007
Jen 2009
Kondo 2009
‘Income inequality, mortality, and self-rated health: meta-analysis of multilevel studies’, Kondo et al. British Medical Journal, 2010
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (2009)
Life Expectancy
Country Selection
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy
Heart disease
Mellor & Milyo 2001
(‘Reexamining the Evidence of an Ecological Association between Income Inequality and Health’, Mellor and Milyo, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 26, No. 3, June 2001)
Obesity
Obesity
Trust
Trust
Trust
Community Life
Community Life
Murder
Murder
Murder
Prison
Prison
Crime
Crime
Crime
Foreign Aid
Charity
Charity
Total Foreign Aid
Tax as % of GDP
Divorce
Childhood Loneliness
Suicide
Quality of life index1. Health: Life expectancy at birth (in years). Source: US Census Bureau2. Family life: Divorce rate (per 1,000 population), converted into index of 1
(lowest divorce rates) to 5 (highest). Sources: UN; Euromonitor3. Community life: Variable taking value 1 if country has either high rate of
church attendance or trade-union membership; zero otherwise. Source: World Values Survey
4. Material well being: GDP per person, at PPP in $. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
5. Political stability and security: Political stability and security ratings. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
6. Climate and geography: Latitude, to distinguish between warmer and colder climates. Source: CIA World Factbook
7. Job security: Unemployment rate (%.) Source: Economist Intelligence Unit8. Political freedom: Average of indexes of political and civil liberties. Scale of
1 (completely free) to 7 (unfree). Source: Freedom House9. Gender equality: Measured using ratio of average male and female earnings.
Source: UNDP Human Development Report
Quality of life index
Quality of Life index
“There is no evidence for an explanation sometimes proffered for the apparent paradox of increasing incomes and stagnant life-satisfaction scores: the idea that an increase in someone’s income causes envy and reduces the welfare and satisfaction of others. In our estimates, the level of income inequality had no impact on levels of life satisfaction.”
The Economist Quality of Life Index (2005)
Religious belief
Cinema Attendance
Religion/Cinema
Happiness/Equality
Happiness/GNI ($)
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