WEALTH, HEALTH, AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE DATA ON SWEDISH LOTTERY PLAYERS

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of substantial wealth shocks on players’ own health and their children’s health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors condit...

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Published in:The Quarterly journal of economics 2016-05, Vol.131 (2), p.687-738
Main Authors: Cesarini, David, Lindqvist, Erik, Östling, Robert, Wallace, Björn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1986-1994
Adults
Attrition
Causality
Child development
Childhood obesity
Children
Children & youth
Childrens health
Clinical outcomes
Consumption
Drug abuse
Drugs
Health services utilization
Health status
Impact analysis
Lotteries
Mental health
Mental health services
Mortality
Obesity
Parent-child relations
Risk reduction
Studies
Wealth
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