) 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 …

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it … the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes from administrative … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This …

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … selfassessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive ancestral country characteristics …. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health problems in their daily life, providing …

consequences on mental health in adulthood, as captured by 11 and 9 percent increases in the consumption of prescription drugs …