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 …

outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation … results imply that on Income Support payday aggregate lottery revenues are higher by 5 percent after controlling for outlet …, weekday, holidays, month and year fixed effects. However, the calculated aggregate response of lottery revenues on Income …

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a … data on lottery sales in Chinese provinces to estimate the short- and long-run effect of EPU on gambling. Our results … suggest that EPU has a significant positive effect on gambling in the short run. In addition, we find that this positive …