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males who were born in the South and experienced a hurricane either in utero or as infants had lower income at ages 42 to 53 …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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of father’s income on child income. We find a strong association between the incomes of fathers and children. The causal … individual incomes. When examining joint income with their partners, the results are more aligned, indicating that assortative … mating plays a key role in intergenerational income transmission, particularly for daughters. …
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not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … childhood is hard-as available evidence suggests-uninsurable income risk can negatively impact the labor market prospects of …
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-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … transfers to affected families, we show that such transfers play a crucial role in smoothing income for these households and … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …
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Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers within Socialist East Germany during the 1980s and accounting for potential endogeneity,...
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This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates … vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that … per capita, rather than by high-educated workers, whose unemployment rates are not correlated with income. To interpret …
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