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| Author: | Addla, J. Banks, J. Gaudecker, H-M. von |
| Title: | The impact of income shocks on health: Evidence from cohort data |
| Journal: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2009 : DEC, VOL. 7:6, p. 1361-1399 |
| Index terms: | health incomes |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article investigates the effect of permanent income innovations on health for prime-aged population. This study aggregates data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a "synthetic cohort" data set with details of income, expenditure, socio-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. Information on more than half a million individuals sampled over a 25-year period in three different cross-sectional surveys is used in this study. To uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health, structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort incomes over the 1980s and 1990s is exploited. The result is that such income innovations have little effect on a wide range of health measures, but do lead to increases in mortality and risky health behaviour. |
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