, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …

, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …

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 …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

-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 …