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Does Income Affect Health? (an RCT)

23 Jul 2024

This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control participants receiving $50 over that same period. The cash transfer resulted in large but short-lived improvements in stress […] The post Does Income Affect Health? (an RCT) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
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Tyler Cowen

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