-farm activities. Participation in these activities plays an important role in increasing rural households' income. This paper analyzes … the factors that drive rural households and individuals in their income-source diversification choices for ten villages in …

-farm activities. Participation in these activities plays an important role in increasing rural households' income. This paper analyzes … the factors that drive rural households and individuals in their income-source diversification choices in a Northern China …

Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit … in Cameroon, kinship rules involve children to be hosted by brothers of the male kin group, and more likely by the eldest …. Using data from the demographic and health survey of Cameroon (2004), a dataset uniquely suitable for our purpose since …

There is now a great deal of micro-econometric evidence, both cross-section and panel, showing that income is … measures of utility, and resolve the Easterlin paradox by appealing to income comparisons: these can be to others (social …

This research tested the idea that lack of material resources (e.g., low income) causes people to make harsher moral … behavior. Consistent with this idea, a large cross-cultural survey (Study 1) found that both chronic (low income) and … stronger for low-income individuals, whom inflation renders relatively more vulnerable. A follow-up experiment (Study 2) caused …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on self-assessed overall health, but a significant positive effect …

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Conforming to … the Easterlin paradox, higher income always correlates with higher happiness, except in one case: whether national income …