adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on … hypothesize that the "marriage ideal" is determined by the median income in an individual's local reference group. After … controlling flexibly for the absolute level of income and a number of other factors, the ratio between a man's income and the …

status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child …There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of …

We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …

are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income gradient …

-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit … similarly from knowing English. While immigrants with low levels of education do not benefit from knowledge of English, there is …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

occupational prestige is explained almost entirely by shared education, and sibling resemblance in family income is explained … almost entirely by the combination of shared education, occupational prestige, and earnings. This is contrasted to sibling … resemblance in earnings and wealth, as siblings retain 60 percent of their resemblance in earnings once we control for education …