Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …

In considering the economic impacts of climatic changes, economists frequently use annual national income as a proxy …

effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

an increase in income on health expenditures. Our central estimate is an income elasticity of 0.7, with an elasticity of … unlikely to be substantial national or global general equilibrium effects of rising income on health spending, for example …Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …’s welfare accounts. The government could redistribute income across people’s welfare accounts, but these redistributions would …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …

use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of … of the income distribution, it is a good proxy for changes in the top half of the distribution and for the Gini … coefficient. In the absence of country and year fixed effects, the income share of the top decile is negatively related to life …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …