hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

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 …

Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on …, despite this financial shock, long term net worth of families is not affected or may be positively affected, potentially due to …

differences along standard socio demographic dimensions: age, race, gender, education, marital status income and geography. I also …-unhappy gap over the unmarried. Income is also important, but Easterlin's (1974) paradox applies: the rich are much happier than … the poor at any moment, but income growth doesn't matter. Education and racial differences are also consequential, though …

terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, the childhood family and neighbourhood context and the … was brought up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, and synthetic …. It is likely that part of the effects attributed to neighbourhoods, are actually effects of the family in which someone …

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which … drew heavily on Sherraden’sasset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts forlow-income families … in the City. This paper presents the “income to assets”policy shift process and a research summary on the participants to …