We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

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 …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

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 …

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. …

The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability … administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households, consultation rates among households in the first and second … average. Health sector financing remains weak. …