Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …

There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each …; and the “income rank position” of individual i, R i. In this Rejoinder we show that because a measure of rank is embodied …

This paper studies the nature of business cycle variation in individual earnings risk using a dataset from the U ….S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of anonymous individuals. The base … decompose individual earnings growth during recessions into "between-group" and "within-group" components. We begin with the …