from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at …There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal. -- life satisfaction ; well-being …

idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is … to agents income is early, then those who in fact married hedges (and for good reason) are the ones most likely to be … resolution of uncertainty to agents income is predominantly later, then those who in fact marry hedges will in fact be less …

the compensating income variation of social capital. We find differences in social capital when we differentiate according … income generally has a statistically significant effect. We find a significant effect of social capital on …?life?satisfaction. Consequently, the compensating income variation of social capital is substantial. …

voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …

being exposed to corruption can largely be explained through their income and their relationship with different power … entities. The direction of the relationship between income and corruption vary across services. Relatively rich households have …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

marginal utility of income. This paper suggests that we have not. It draws a distinction between concavity of the utility … function and concavity of the reporting function. -- happiness ; money ; marginal utility ; curvature ; concave …

idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a "hedge" (i.e. a spouse whose income is … love is very persistent, for example, and the resolution of uncertainty to agents' income is early, then those who in fact … resolution of uncertainty to agents' income is predominantly later, then those who in fact marry hedges will in fact be less …

the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …