idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a "hedge" (i.e., a spouse whose income is … to agents' income is early, then those who in fact married hedges (and for good reason) are the ones most likely to be … resolution of uncertainty to agents' income is predominantly later, then those who in fact marry hedges will in fact be less …

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 …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years …The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we …