This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with … major finding before readily accepting it as evidence, we analyzed the effect of the interaction between income and …

Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health … income mobility downward movements affect SWB to a greater extent than upward movements, consistent with notions of loss …

I study the long-term impact of class identity (chengfen) on individuals' income and households' wealth in urban China … using Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) data. Chinese government launched movements to make income and consumption in … significantly lower income and family assets per capita than those from the rich class. The only exception is for those individuals …