migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suering considerable income losses …. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not …) to calculate how much income the selfemployed are able to sacrice to achieve a subjective barely sucient household income …