Health responses to a wealth shock: evidence from a Swedish tax reform
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Health responses to a wealth shock: evidence from a Swedish tax reform
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the effects of wealth on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes through the use of administrative registers. The results show that increased wealth ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Population Economics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0933-1433,1432-1475
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-017-0651-2