, household income, and household wealth - and the health outcomes investigated span multiple dimensions as well. International …-country differences in levels of income equality and mortality as among the most compelling evidence that unequal societies have negative … top. This social health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of SES. While …

In this paper we reassess the evidence on labor income risk. There are two leading views on the nature of the income … process in the current literature. The .first view, which we call the .Restricted Income Profiles.(RIP) process, holds that … individuals are subject to large and very persistent shocks, while facing similar life-cycle income profiles. The alternative view …

which measures of SES are used (income, wealth, or education), the evidence that this association is large is abundant …

aspects such as income or wealth or nonfinancial dimensions like education? Finally, is there a life course component to the …

partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance. In this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous … empirical studies is removed and the focus of the analysis placed on models for the conditional variance of income shocks, that … earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for …

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …