concentrated amongst women from families of low socioeconomic status. We find little evidence to support occupational sorting …

distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

differences, we emphasize instead a model of status seeking in which conspicuous consumption is used to reflect a household …

in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating …

how the age-obesity gradient differs with socioeconomic status (SES) and begin to examine channels for these SES … such as overall status or specific medical conditions. Third, a substantial portion of the SES "effect" is transmitted … education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of …

We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …

socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and …

is used as the marker of one's SES status. These conclusions are maintained even after controlling for a standard set of … the health of English men when self-reported general health status is used. The contradiction most likely stems instead … from different thresholds used by Americans and English when evaluating health status on subjective scales. For the same …