This paper studies how spouses' life satisfaction levels are correlated. Using the British Household Panel Survey, it tests whether the observed positive correlation in life satisfaction is due to assortative mating, shared social environment, or spillover effect of well-being between partners....

This paper proposes a test for the hypothesis that two samples have the same distribution. The likelihood ratio test of Portnoy (1988) is applied in the context of the consistent series density estimator of Crain (1974) and Barron and Sheu (1991). It is proven that the test, when suitably...

This paper presents an Arrow-type result which can be simply demonstrated to hold within the standard domain of welfare economics: in the (m×n) Edgeworth Box, a best allocation must assign all goods to a single individual. Allowing the Social Welfare Function to take account of envy-freeness,...