considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of … top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present … of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … distribution of health and income, though not generally in terms of the uni-dimensional distribution of health or income. The paper …

socioeconomic status (low education and income) and residents of the less developed central and western regions. This beneficial …Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the …