The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …

Two family-specific lotteries take place during conception— a social lottery that determines who our parents are and … which environment we grow up in, and a genetic lottery that determines which part of their genomes our parents pass on to us … socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …