In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

unwound. Juxtaposing these changes with large rises in income inequality suggests an important role for non-pecuniary factors …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …

(SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Relative to male earnings inequality, the inequality of couples' earnings …We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period … using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels …

We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of …. There is a statistically significant difference in income growth between intermarried and intramarried immigrants within …

supported by numerous studies that show that SAHS is a better predictor of mortality and morbidity than medical records. The …