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Kate E. Pickett, PhD, Jessica Mookherjee, MSc and Richard G. Wilkinson, MMedSci

Kate E. Pickett is with the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, England. Jessica Mookherjee is with the Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, England. Richard G. Wilkinson is with the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham, England.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Kate E. Pickett, PhD, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Seebohm Rowntree Building—Room A/TB/220, Heslington, York YO10 5DD UK (e-mail: kp6{at}york.ac.uk).

Income inequality has been associated with both homicides and births to adolescents in the United States and with homicides internationally. We found that adolescent birth rates and general homicide rates were closely correlated with each other internationally (r= 0.95) and within the United States (r = 0.74) and with inequality internationally and within the United States. These results, coupled with no association with absolute income, suggested that violence and births to adolescents may reflect gender-differentiated responses to low social status and could be reduced by reducing income inequality.

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