The question of whether there is a lasting effect of childhood experience on mental health has eluded causal … one standard deviation change in mental health due to idiosyncratic experience at age 9 will still be present three years … later. Extending the analysis, we find such persistence to vary with age at impact, gender, and mental health sub …

. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a … predictor of SWB and mental health outcomes if the person moves downward. We also explore pathways through which income mobility …

: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings …-section data, and, second, general health should partly reflect mental health, so that we may expect both variables to move in the … second, we show that lottery winnings are also associated with more smoking and social drinking. General health will reflect …