@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp16264,
            	author={Stark, Oded},
            	title={Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment},
            	year={2023},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={16264},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16264},
	abstract={Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to reduce [income] inequalities and [thereby] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of their populations." In this Comment, we argue that reducing the Gini coefficient of the income distribution of a population need not weaken the population's social stress. It is this stress which is a source of adverse health outcomes of the population. Because a measure of this stress is a component of the Gini coefficient, reducing the coefficient can leave the measure as is, or even increase the measure.
},
	keywords={forming public health policy;income inequality;Gini coefficient;social stress},
            }