In this paper, information on lottery wins from the British Household Panel Survey is exploited to investigate the effects of exogenous positive income shocks on family life. By comparing big with small lottery winners (N=2,618), it is investigated whether couples divorce more or less after...

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...