estimation is an implicit price index for lottery, which can serve as a cost-of-living index for the CPI. The estimated price …

effects on happiness and mental health are significantly smaller, suggesting that wealth has greater long-run effects on …

ordinary least squares and lottery-based instrumental variables estimates of VAM parameters. The hybrid estimation strategy …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One … benefits in Canada to study these questions. Importantly, our approach allows us to make stronger causal inferences than has …, and family type, we study outcomes spanning test scores, mental health, physical health, and deprivation measures. The …

not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …

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 …