The Relationship between Income and Health: Evidence from Nationwide Health Exams in Korea -- by Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Sehyun Hong

We are grateful to Cheungeun Koo, Joonyoung Seo, Jong-sung You, and the Korean National Health Insurance Service for access to the National Health Insurance Service data (approval no. NHIS-2023-1-821), and to Adriana Lleras-Muney, Hannah Wunsch, and participants at the Junior-ish Health Economics Conference and the Opportunity Insights Conference on Economic Mobility for helpful comments. Jaeyoung Baak, Gayeon Kim, and Cheieun Im provided excellent research assistance. Hong gratefully acknowledges financial support from the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-EURE-001). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I would like to disclose that I was an adviser to Nuna Health, a data analytics startup company, which specializes in analytics of health insurance claims. I am not being paid by them, but have received equity (nominal value is less than $1,000 the market value is hard to assess).