Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

health status on income in China and examine whether their conclusions still hold under new specifications and in a broader … time horizon. Our results show a larger impact of health status on income after replacing household income with individual …The economic benefits from improving health status are obvious, yet there remains a lack of agreement on how to …

inequalities in happiness beyond income inequality. Based on the two waves of nation-wide survey data on happiness collected by … are the least happy even though the income effect flats out at the high end. Individuals with below high school education … unhappy over time. However, in U.S., there is no systematic difference in happiness across income and education groups and …

This chapter goes beyond the traditional economic thinking about the relationship between health and income – simply … for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. That is, better health does not have to wait for an improved economy … stated: wealth is needed to achieve health – by presenting evidence that population health is an important factor in …

opportunity, income, poverty, quality of life, rural migration, rural women and birth rate; notes economic aid provided by World …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate rural people's perception of income adequacy in order to … understand how it is affected by income in the county where the respondent lives, age of household members, as well as number of … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate …