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dc.contributor.authorADDA, Jérôme
dc.contributor.authorBANKS, James
dc.contributor.authorVON GAUDECKER, Hans-Martin
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-28T11:16:24Z
dc.date.available2011-02-28T11:16:24Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationJournal of the European Economic Association, 2009, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 1361-1399en
dc.identifier.issn1542-4766
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/15836
dc.description.abstractWe study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more than half a million individuals sampled over a 25-year period in three different cross-sectional surveys we aggregate 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. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort incomes over the 1980s and 1990s to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find 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.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the European Economic Associationen
dc.titleThe impact of income shocks on health : evidence from cohort dataen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.identifier.startpage1361en
dc.identifier.endpage1399en


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