more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

economic conditions at the local and national level, with statistical selection of optimal local area. We apply this approach … to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …

environment affect workers' perceived job security, and the impact of job security on measures of mental and physical health. To … movements drive changes in perceived job security, which in turn significantly and substantively affects the mental health of … workers. In contrast, we find no effects on physical health. Our results imply that the estimated welfare costs of recessions …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … exposure on child health. Such information is valuable to policy-makers when deciding upon the amount of resources to direct … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in … nationally-representative individual and household surveys, with objective measures of the same health condition. Our particular …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …