This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …

This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to … strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform income into well-being in the same way. We show that both individual … marginal effect of income on well-being across classes will be reflected in both behaviour and preferences for redistribution. …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

of children from poorer families. …

between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the …There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well … age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, an epidemiological cohort …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …