incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …

administrative data on landing records matched with subsequent income tax records that also allows for the linking of the records of … parent's subsequent income in Canada. …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …

employees and the selfemployed. We show that while on average income protection was similar for employees and the self …. For employees, both monetary compensation schemes and unemployment benefits played a similar role in absorbing the income … stabilised their income. Overall, we find that monetary compensation schemes, together with automatic stabilisers, absorbed a …

Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …