Income Inequality and Mortality in US Counties: Does Minority Racial Concentration Matter?
Diane K. McLaughlin, PhD and
C. Shannon Stokes, PhD
The authors are with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and the Population Research Institute, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
FIGURE 1——Age- and sex-adjusted total mortality rates, by income inequality quartile and per capita income, in 3067 counties in the contiguous United States.
FIGURE 2——Estimated age- and sex-adjusted mortality rates, by income inequality quartile and percentage of Blacks, in 3067 counties in the contiguous United States.
FIGURE 3——Estimated age-, sex-, and race-adjusted total mortality rates, by income inequality quartile and percentage of Blacks, in 3067 counties in the contiguous United States.
