We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …

education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of … children, or the set of health behaviors we control for. However, approximately half of the SES-weight correlation persists …

with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher … an impact on the schools parents chose and if those changed choices led to academic gains. We find that 16% of parents … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

"There is growing empirical evidence that low-income parents place lower weights on academics when choosing schools … parents choose and the subsequent impact on their children's academic outcomes. We find in both cases that providing parents … these parents had a substantial monetary impact on their children's lifetime earnings, adding to growing evidence that small …