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 …

: education, income and wealth are each found to contribute about as much to a longer life as intelligence. The joint effect of … all four variables is dominated by childhood intelligence and adult wealth at the expense of education and income. …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …

I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no …

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

with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …