Highlights•Low income groups are criticised for making suboptimal decisions in domains
such as health and finance.•These reflect a psychological shift in response to …

Background Natural experiments are increasingly valued as a way to assess the health
impact of health and non-health interventions when planned controlled experimental …

Abstract Reform of the Chinese State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) sector in the late 1990s
triggered massive layoffs (34 million employees) and marked the end of the “Iron Rice Bowl” …

Current literature confirms the negative consequences of contemporaneous economic
insecurity for mental health, but ignores possible implications of repeated insecurity. This …

Canada is in a new era. For 35 years, the country has become vastly wealthier, but most
people have not. For the top 1%, and even more forthe top 0.1%, the last 35 years have …

A full understanding of the negative impact of economic inequality must consider the
perspective of those at the bottom of society. This chapter focuses on how the experience of …

We explore the effects of parental economic insecurity on their children's hyperactivity and
anxiety. Our central argument is that even after controlling for current family income and …

Economic well-being is partly determined by the affluence or deprivations which individuals
experience in the immediate present, and it is also partly determined by the worries or …

Obesity, with its increasing incidence and prevalence, is a global and acute public health
problem due to its high costs and strong negative relationship with many physical and …

Minimum wage laws are a promising policy lever to promote health equity, but few rigorous
evaluations have tested whether and how minimum wage policy affects health outcomes …