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We use British panel data to determine 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 by winners is largely exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on self-assessed overall health, but a significant positive effect on mental health. This result seems paradoxical on two levels. First, there is a well-known gradient in health status in cross-section data, and, second, general health should partly reflect mental health, so that we may expect both variables to move in the same direction. We propose a solution to the first apparent paradox by underlining the endogeneity of income. For the second, we show that lottery winnings are also associated with more smoking and social drinking. General health will reflect both mental health and the effect of these behaviours, and so may not improve following a positive income shock.
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Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
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Auteur(s)
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Bénédicte Apouey
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, Andrew E. Clark
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
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PSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 139754 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique USC1336 ( 92114 )
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8545 ( 441569 )
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IZA -
Institute for the Study of Labor
( 142142 )
- Allemagne
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Date de production/écriture |
2014-01
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Anglais
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Financement |
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Ce travail a bénéficié d'une aide de l'Etat gérée par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche au titre du programme « Investissements d'avenir » portant la référence ANR-10-LABX-93-01.
This work was supported by the French National Research Agency, through the program Investissements d'Avenir, ANR-10-LABX-93-01.
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Référence interne |
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PSE Working Papers n°2009-09
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
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I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I1 - Health
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I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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Conflict of interest: none declared, Income, Self-assessed health, Mental health, Smoking, Drinking
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