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Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as an Exogenous Source of Variation in Income
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A vast literature has established a strong positive relation between income and health status and a negative relation with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation due to a truly exogenous factor: monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income causally generates good health and that this effect is of a similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used. A 10 percent income increase improves health by about 4–5 percent of a standard deviation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lindahl, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- XL
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 144-168
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- 1548-8004
- OpenAlex
- W2142709663
- Cited by
- 379
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 8.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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