mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent. …

Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern …. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and mental health. We find that relative income mobility is a significant … predictor of life satisfaction and mental health whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a …

We examine whether income shocks affect a range of health outcomes and a preventative behaviour. We instrument income …-cyclical effect of income on health. A ten percent increase in income reduces by 0.2 the number of illnesses. A further finding is the … positive effect on vaccinations of children under six: a ten percent increase in income implies an increase of about one …

In adults, the negative relationship between smoking and income is well established. However divergent results have … to which misclassification errors in self-reported smoking affects estimates of the impact of parental income on smoking … compare marginal effects of parental income (and other independent variables) in both models. Our results suggest that self …

horizontal inequity using methods based on the Concentration Index, a widely used indicator of income-related inequality in … the income distribution utilize a relatively larger share of formal services (provided by a professional), while intensive …

We exploit regional variation in the availability of breast cancer screening policies and variations in age eligibility …

-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income …