Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players*

@inproceedings{Cesarini2016WealthHA,
  title={Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players*},
  author={David Cesarini and Erik Lindqvist and Robert {\"O}stling and Bj{\"o}rn Wallace},
  year={2016}
}
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 conditional on which the prizes were randomly assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception of a small reduction in the… CONTINUE READING

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