We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a synthetic cohort dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war … industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased … of Engagement Order whereby women between the ages of 18 and 40 who either entered the labour market or who changed …

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

determination of self-employment is novel for India along with the findings where college educated women show higher probability of …

distribution we move, their presence has steadily increased in all top groups over the past four decades. Top income women are … opposite is true for men. Realized capital gains are more important for top income women but turn out to be of a more … transitory nature than for men. Mobility is generally higher for top income women compared to top income men but the trend since …

measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …