, sports and leisure, career, and health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …