regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … income. Using representative panel data on urban households from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, I find that a … household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk … and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …