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Acknowledgments

Mauricio Avendano is supported by a Starting Researcher grant from the European Research Council (ERC) (Grant No. 263684), and grants from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant No. 633666), and the National Institute on Aging (Grants R01AG040248 and R01AG037398). Philipp Hessel is supported by a David Bell Fellowship from Harvard University.

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health and Social Care, Cowdray House, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK

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  2. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Mauricio Avendano

  3. Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Avendano, M., Hessel, P. The income inequality hypothesis rejected?. Eur J Epidemiol 30, 595–598 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0084-8

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