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 investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a … and income poverty approach. An important dimension would be neglected in the poverty analysis and in targeted poverty …

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … hence account for time and income as important multiple poverty dimensions. Second, the interdependence of the poverty … quantification we disentangle time, income and interdependent multidimensional poverty regimes characterising the working poor. In …