causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …

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 …

We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control … imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer downsizing increases the probability that older workers rate their health … health by increasing job insecurity and stress, but that its effects remain statistically significant after controlling for …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are … correlated with changes in health status. While health transitions are correlated with changes in food deprivation status, there … is little evidence that change in food deprivation status leads changes in health status but some evidence that change in …

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …