We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely …

social determinants of health, the complexities that arise in attributing earnings differentials to variations in health … impact of health on earnings that addresses problems of measurement error and endogeneity, then summarizes the main findings … impact of health on earnings-we can assess the magnitude and importance of the `human capital`component of health status …