We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing
the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …

The links between economic prosperity and subjective well-being was one of the first ones
to be investigated, ever since the latter has been measured. For convenience and …

Child marriage places girls at an increased risk for dropping out of school early, sexually
transmitted infections, teenage childbirth, and accompanying childbirth complications …

This paper introduces a new estimator for the fixed-effects ordered logit model. The
proposed method has two advantages over existing estimators. First, it estimates the …

Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this
phenomenon by exploiting both inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health …

In line with the wide recognition of the connection between socioeconomic status and health
outcomes, attention in the recent literature is extending the static perspective to the dynamic …

We develop a novel control function approach in models where the treatment variable has
bunching at one corner of its support. This situation typically arises when the treatment …

A large body of literature has investigated the health-wealth nexus. Most studies exploit
exogenous shocks to wealth, such as lottery prizes and inheritances, to investigate the …

This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic model of health, addiction, education, and
wealth in order to understand the well-established positive empirical relationship between …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the effects of wealth on health. First, it
deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in …