Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census … capita in their county of birth reduces four-year college degree attainment by 10 percent and income in adulthood by 3 … graduates and $42-$87 billion less earned income per year. …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …