intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …

dominates the intensive (hours) margin; for singles, this leads to larger labor supply responses in low-income groups; income …

spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing …

pharmaceuticals. At the same time many scholars point out the importance of of scientific advances for the industry's R&D activities … number of new pharmaceuticals in the United States. Technological opportunities are operationalized as growth rates of the …-maximum likelihood estimator. The results reveal a rather robust and significantly positive response of the number of new pharmaceuticals …

-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …

health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period … 59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …