) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results … (AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non …

behaviour or be hospitalized for mental health problems. The results are robust to controlling for a rich set of potentially …

towards poor health, it would be best to have official data provided by the relevant administrative bodies. But we argue that …