In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and … the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute … income, with greater weight given to rank by males, migrants, and individuals from wealthy families. Rank …

household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … results confirm that childhood conditions such as household income and the quality of the home environment are significant …