Kennedy BP, Kawachi I, Prothrow-Stith D. Important correction. Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States. British Medical Journal 1996; 312: 1194

A recalculation of the Gini coefficient, another measure of income inequality, shows that it too is strongly associated with the same measures of mortality as the Robin Hood Index. This is consistent with the Kawachi and Kennedy paper published in Social Science and Medicine in 1997, showing that the choice of income inequality measure it not important.

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