We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …