U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … income and suggest that health status, like other measures of socioeconomic success, is strongly influenced by family …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … income and suggest that health status, like other measures of socioeconomic success, is strongly influenced by family …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … countries. In contrast, individual and relative income matter in some countries, such as the US, and not in others, for example … targeting income. …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …