We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal …

income data. Yet, what matters for incentives is how much an individual can consume or save after taxation. We show that net … and gross income growth patterns may differ substantially when a progressive tax system allows for deduction opportunities … income gains from promotions and cross-firm mobility do not translate into significantly higher net income growth, because …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between … health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated … economic conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …