timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …

opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

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 …

We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes … in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children's time preferences at age 13 to …