-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …

. 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 …

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

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

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 … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income …

which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …

leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … afford private mitigation of the adverse consequences of pollution is a central feature of the analysis. Private mitigation …