Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e., duration-weighted positive feelings less negative feelings) measured two … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …

complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …

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 …

measured improvement in mental wellbeing is 1.4 GHQ points. -- psychological health ; happiness ; GHQ ; income …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …

studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …. -- noncognitive skills ; personality traits ; lottery winners ; instrumental variables ; unearned income …

We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between … correlated. -- casino gambling ; crime …

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success …

less than comparable natives employees in 2005. For immigrants from non-English speaking countries, the wage disadvantage …