North Carolina: Positive Income Shocks And Accidental Deaths Among Cherokee Indians: A Natural ...

North Carolina: Positive Income Shocks And Accidental Deaths Among Cherokee Indians: A Natural Experiment Tim A Bruckner, Ryan A Brown, and Claire Margerison-Zilko, 2011   Background: Several studies in low-income populations report the somewhat counterintuitive finding that positive income gains adversely affect adult health. The literature posits that receipt of a large portion of annual income increases, in the short term, risk-taking behaviour and/or the consumption of health-damaging...

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