unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …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 US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is …’s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …