we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis …Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …

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 …