between perception and reality in four social domains-health, employment, the perception of security, and social ranking. The … relevant with respect to health and job satisfaction. Cultural differences across countries are pronounced in perceptions of … health, while cultural differences across socioeconomic groups are more apparent with respect to job satisfaction. Affect and …

, increased their households' non-labor income. This has decreased their labor supply and labor earnings, in turn decreasing … households' labor income and thus reducing, ceteris paribus, the program's effect on total per capita household income … also suggest that additional resources were neither consumed nor invested in health, education, or the purchase of durables …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

. The negative effects of health conditions are very large when compared to the effects of income on happiness. While higher … peer income typically elicits envy, better peer health provides positive signals for life and health satisfaction …This paper assesses the effects of different health conditions on happiness. Based on a large data set for Latin …

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects … on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …

Eastern and Western Europe. Socio-demographic factors, education, income, religiosity and religious denomination are …