This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized …-sectional correlation between income and health lies well outside our confidence intervals. We also find that the transfer did not improve … experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control …

pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across …-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests … that variation in income inequality across groups of individuals originating from different ancestral backgrounds can be …

interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

index we demonstrate that health inequality arises much earlier in life; by age 35, the bottom half of the income … sorting into lower-income groups. Using linked health survey data, we then examine the contributions of various mediators to …The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the …

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …