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 …

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …

correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born into smaller cohorts are less likely to work, but school … attendance remains unchanged. In middle-income countries, young adults in smaller cohorts are less likely to be unemployed and …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

Relative cohort size – the ratio of young to prime-age adults – and relative income – the income of young adults … relative to their material aspirations, as instrumented using the income of older families their parents' age – have …'s starting wage – both relative and absolute – in the first period, and 100% of its increase in the second. Relative income is …