explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …

their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … national income; each doubling of income is associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to … slightly stronger among rich countries. Conditional on national income, recent economic growth makes people unhappier …

income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

interestrate.The second part of the paper is concerned with the time-series representation of disposable income and with it … simplications for the behavior of consumption under the assumptions of the life-cycle model. If real disposable income is truly a … than innovations in income, a prediction that is manifestly false. Various possible resolutions of this problem are …