complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations. …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected …