Winning Big But Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health
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- Benedicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2015. "Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(5), pages 516-538, May.
- Benedicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2009. "Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health," Working Papers 2009.96, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
- Apouey, Bénédicte & Clark, Andrew E., 2010. "Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health," IZA Discussion Papers 4730, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Bénédicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2014. "Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health," PSE Working Papers halshs-00566789, HAL.
- Bénédicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2014. "Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health," Working Papers halshs-00566789, HAL.
- Bénédicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2015. "Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-01155641, HAL.
- Bénédicte Apouey & Andrew E. Clark, 2015. "Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health," Post-Print halshs-01155641, HAL.
- Apouey, Bénédicte & Clark, Andrew E., 2013. "Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 51570, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Income; self-assessed health; mental health; smoking; drinking;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LTV-2013-07-15 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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