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

service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …

, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the …

health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight … establishing that an exogenous increase in income can improve health, and illustrating a health impact of a non-health program …This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

-term effect of Vietnam-era military service on health …

inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline … of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …

are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …. Finally, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income …Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …

technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health … years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least …