Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21514 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 442
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations.
Subjects: 
Health
mortality
income
lottery
JEL: 
I12
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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