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How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …
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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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