associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity. Greater wealth, as measured by the real value of the Prize, does not …

A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen …, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the man she may marry. A sound observable financial background ("old …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …

, we combine historical data on province-level famine exposure with contemporary data on individual wealth. To better … effect on the contemporary wealth of individuals born during this period. Together, the evidence suggests that the famine had … an adverse effect on wealth, and it is even present among the wealthiest cohort of individuals in present-day China. …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …