We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries … results accounts for ≈1% of the variance in self-reported income in two independent samples (N = 29,440) and improves upon the …

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables …

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …