While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country …

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …

impact of environmental policies, with special attention paid to gender disparities within their effects. This study utilizes …

disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …

losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender …