This study divides the effects of religious involvement on subjective well being (SWB) into direct and indirect channels. The indirect channels mean that, by improving its adherents' present lives, religion enhances their happiness. It is found that devout Christians enhance their SWB by means...

This study finds that marital happiness initially increases with income and then remains more or less constant. It is likely that there exists an optimal number of children.

type="main" <p>This study considers both vertical and horizontal educational mismatches, with the former referring to overeducation and undereducation, and the latter to the mismatch between college major and job. It is found that the wage premium of the vertical educational match is greater than...</p>

Using a data set of Taiwanese female graduates in 2006, this study finds that height and earnings are positively correlated for full-time workers. However, it is not because tall individuals went to better colleges or received better grades (cognitive ability), not because they are gifted with...

This study demonstrates that the level of firm-specific technology significantly enlarges the wage gaps of managers. Firm-specific technology is found to be more powerful than industrial risk or the promotion rate in explaining the wage gaps of managers.

Using a unique Taiwan JCEE data set, this study finds that the compensating wage differential for marine engineers is about one third of their received wage, and for nuclear engineers is about one fifth of their received wage.

An integrated approach for estimating the stock of human capital in the United States is developed which eliminates well known problems associated with both the cost and income based methods currently in use. Historical information on the cost of the educational investment made in base entrants...

The magnitude of the reward of an afterlife promised in the case of Christians is significantly greater than that in relation to both Buddhism and Taiwanese folk religions. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether these differences in the promised rewards of an afterlife across...