unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is …’s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …

. 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 …

-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …

leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for …

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …