considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …

This paper analyses the relationship between net wealth and health using Waves 1 to 3 of the Survey of Family, Income … and Employment (SoFIE). The results show that lower net wealth is associated with worse health over a range of differing … those who experienced a health failure had, on average, less wealth and worse self-rated health than those who did not. The …

In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …