Adda, Jerome; Banks, James W.; von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2021
We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a synthetic cohort dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …