characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …

In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa?s most populous province … role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …

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 …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …'s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …