We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …

as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with … good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …. -- Health ; Whitehall studies ; GHQ ; locus of control ; job satisfaction ; mortality ; status …

is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite … financial stress is strongly associated with worse social health. Our results are robust to a panel analysis that accounts for …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

account when predicting transmission or designing effective public health measures and messages to prevent or contain …

same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the … previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed pre- and post …-COVID-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …