We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a 'synthetic cohort' dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions … an imputed income from housing, rather than near-cash income. It describes what different impressions one gets about the …