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This article focuses on how dual-income heterosexual couples make financial decisions. Dual-income households have …
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valuation of money, and a golden rule equilibrium in which the rate of interest is equal to population growth (independent of …
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voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …
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In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …
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risk factors in determining children's exposure to passive smoke. Accounting for the potential measurement error in … factors, the shadow price or income-equivalence of such exposure is £16,000 (US$30,000) per year. A further policy … income and child health. …
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general … us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won is largely exogenous. These … positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health. This result …
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age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
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of dollars in tax liability. Because this income windfall is realized during the first few months of a newborn's life, we … after the New Year. Using data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Children …
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