other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or … other aspects of economic and social life. The existence of such comparison effects with respect to income may help to …

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …-1998, for which data are available. A key finding of this analysis is the extreme vulnerability of low-educated people and women … in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t, for individuals with a given income level, are compared … according to the income trajectory of the individual over the previous one to nine years. Descriptive statistics are followed by … reference groups (for example, ethnicity and employment status). Fixed effects regressions allow for individual variation in the …

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth … is associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health is associated with both income and children¿s health …

Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses impact on well-being differently … falls in income have a larger impact on well-being than equivalent income gains. The effect is not explained by the … diminishing returns to well-being of income. Our findings show that loss aversion applies to experienced losses, counteracting …