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 …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …

the relationship between subject well-being and income observed within countries. Finally, examining the relationship … between changes in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income …

fundamentals driving these emigration life cycles to the United States since 1970 – income and education gaps between the US and …