. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a ‘veil-of-ignorance’ approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …

-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …

effects at the individual level, depending on household equivalent income. Specifically, we show that ethnic heterogeneity in …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …