We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won is largely […]
[…] their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We […]
[…] dissertation focuses on the testing and identification of models of household decision-making, with an emphasis on bargaining between spouses. Chapter 1 provides a framework for analyzing the impact of a change in property division law–a natural experiment that affects spouses’ bargaining power in a discrete manner–on household decision-making. I focus on the 2000 House […]
This paper studies the impact of mortgages on consumer debt and on debt on durable goods. We first present a stylized model in which an outstanding debt, representing mortgages, affects positively consumer debt, and debt on durable goods. The model is empirically tested for the U.S. using PSID 2005 wave. Our results are striking. […]
[…] and country-specific household panel data sets, as well as administrative data, to test whether disability benefit claims rise when unemployment is higher, and also to investigate the impact of unemployment rates on flows on and off the benefit rolls. We find strong evidence that local variations in unemployment have an important explanatory role for […]
[…] hierarchy. This study started with the conceptual distinction between two types of health selection studies. Type I health selection study (the presence of health selection) examines the impact of poor health on the subsequent social mobility. On the contrary, type II study (the contribution of health selection to social inequalities in health) examines whether […]
This paper provides a framework for analyzing the impact of a change in property division law – a natural experiment that affects spouses’ bargaining power in a discrete manner – on household decision making. I focus on the House of Lords decision of 2000 (White v. White), which led to a more equitable division […]
The analysis in this paper focuses on the impact of health on the savings and consumption decisions of the elderly. In principle, there are at least five alternative channels through which health may affect consumption and savings. Ill health may affect both consumption capacities and needs while the risk of deteriorating health might increase […]