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 …

such as government spending, taxes, and primary surplus. Effects in the opposite direction are much smaller. Results are …

analyses with regard to debt financing, external equity financing and debt constraints via agency cost. -- Capital income …

education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the productivity of private education choices. We allow public …

The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal … tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a … income shifting through the timing of dividends seems to be a drain on internal equity and cause increases in the …