Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and … occupational status and, in particular, annual income of immigrants. We also find that bridging ties with Germans lead to higher … occupational status, but not to increased income. These effects remain visible even when social contacts are measured (at least …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results from fixed effects …. Significant pre-marriage income growth and a lack of post-marriage income growth for those that marry natives suggest that …

Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are …

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …'s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …