This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …

general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health …

This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal … and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the distribution of life satisfaction over the life course at the aggregated …, subgroup and individual level. To the findings: On average, life satisfaction is mildly decreasing up to age fifty …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … exit from the workforce is assessed by non-parametric estimation of survival rates in the labour force. The results … indicate no effects of adult education on the timing of retirement. …

deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …