Income receipt and mortality - Evidence from Swedish public sector employees

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 131, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-32

  Andersson, Elvira ^a   Lundborg, Petter ^a,b   Vikström, Johan ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumption; Health; Income; Liquidity constraints; Mortality; Permanent income hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942524190     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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