This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …. Following the 1940 Decennial Census, which collected information on educational attainment and on earned income and time worked … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …

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 …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

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 …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

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. …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …