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 …

attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …

and have good institutions, well developed financial systems, a high road density, a high income per capita and … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …