opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children's time preferences at age 13 to …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …