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 …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …

headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings …, appear modest when compared with the persistent impact on earnings growth of promotions (either within or across firms) and …

Promotions and cross-firm mobility provide substantial gains in earnings - a well established finding based on gross … 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 …

(panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … than females in terms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, with females being … worse off in terms of the levels of earnings, while they have experienced somewhat smaller earnings decreases than males …

combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics — the 1957-58 "Asian Flu … heterogeneity in the underlying severity of these two shocks across counties, we find no relationship between Medicaid eligibility … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to …

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years …

estimated wage rate and income effects are data dependent as well. The measures used include those from time-use surveys and … compared to data collected for a well-defined time period close to the date of interview, such as time-use data. The income …