This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …

entrance degree but no further professional qualification as well as for those who were in the upper percentiles of the income …

. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …