We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …

The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of … tax base and less tax revenue. In addition, the current tax-financed systems of social pensions and health care will … increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …

In this paper, we characterize the multi-faceted health of the elderly and understand how health along multiple … of health can be combined into three broad categories: a first dimension representing severe physical and social … improvement in health is not due to differential mortality of the sick or a new generation of more healthy people entering old age …

were impaired in the performance of at least one basic activity. It describes their wealth, living arrangements, and health … characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed … home-health care utilization in this population are distinct from the factors that have been significant predictors of …

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration … than a risk. Refugees living in these areas report better health and feel less exposed to xenophobia …

capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …

satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …

the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for … changes do not reflect the shift in source countries from Northern and Western Europe to Southern and Eastern Europe. Instead …