Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set … there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants – also in terms of the direction … of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according to …

We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we differentiate between the effects of persistent and transitory income shocks …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to anincrease in the variance of … repeated cross-section data onconsumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable …

decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially …