We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising
conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other …

We surveyed a large sample of Swedish lottery players about their psychological well-being
5–22 years after a major lottery event and analysed the data following pre-registered …

Significant parts of populations in developed countries frequently worry and ruminate about
their finances. Financial worry and rumination can have serious psychological …

Do minimum wages and the earned income tax credit (EITC) mitigate rising “deaths of
despair?” We leverage state variation in these policies over time to estimate event study and …

Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap | New England Journal of
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This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by
studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States …

This paper uses several large cross-sectional data sources and a new approach to estimate
midlife effects of entering the labor market in a recession on mortality by cause and various …

Using individual patient records for every hospital in California from 1983 to 2011, we find a
strong inverse link between daily stock returns and hospital admissions, particularly for …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years,
many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the …