This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it … the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes from administrative … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This …

public in Sweden. Respondents in a nation-wide and representative survey systematically underestimate the share of an … the case with the payroll taxes in Sweden, we call it fiscal obfuscation …

public in Sweden. Respondents in a nation-wide and representative survey systematically underestimate the share of an … the case with the payroll taxes in Sweden, we call it fiscal obfuscation. …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze … the role of a potentially important attribute—CEO health—in corporate governance. Boards hire CEOs who are healthier than … other high-skill professionals, in particular in mental health. After hiring, CEOs' health develops similarly to a control …

Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood seems to be of utmost … strong force affecting adult and child health outcomes. Yet, there is much unexplained variation with respect to the … globalization effect on child health, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. One factor that could explain such …

self-assessed health, which in turn is important for both individual well-being and productivity. A religious background … predicts worse health. As the previous literature has not been able to rule out reverse causality, we apply a novel method that … does. The health of the children of immigrants in 30 European countries is related to different measures of religiosity in …