The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create … health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …

. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations. …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …'s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …