The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education … instruments in income regressions. …

earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using several waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we …Despite women's recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article … examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co …

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …

secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to … unobservable factors that themselves might be correlated across generations. Our main findings suggest that income has no positive …

Pensions for reduced earnings capacity (REC) have yearly made up about 20% of all pensions granted by the German …

-economic analyses of SOEP data show that income has a clear influence on donation behavior. Although the richest ten percent of … households contribute 37 percent of total donations, they donate less than the poorer income groups relative to their disposable … income. Despite this, the tax benefit from charitable giving is greater for richer households than for poorer because it is …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …