How does the memory of lives lost in past wars shape communities and the next generation of soldiers? We use newly … collected data on geolocated British servicemen to study the legacy of the Great War mortality shock on local communities and …

affected households and those that were not directly flooded but their communities were (the spillovers). We measure the impact … of the disaster on income, expenditure, assets, debt and savings levels, directly, and indirectly on spillover households …

This paper studies the impact of UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) inscription on income and property values in the … of income. Possible underlying mechanisms are discussed. …

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 …