This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long-run (five year average) a one …

There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at … random. To probe the validity of these assumptions, I compare estimates for life satisfaction with those for job satisfaction …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

expenditures and children's academic performance. During children's pre-kindergarten years, UPK enrollment increases weekly … childcare coverage by 11 hours. Enrollment has limited impacts on children's academic outcomes between kindergarten and 8th … persist for at least six years after the end of pre-kindergarten. Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … correlations between life and health satisfaction and health measures shows that happiness (or self-reported health) measures … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation … may take over 5 years so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long …