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 ($)