We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a … to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75). Survey evidence suggests that additional pension income improves …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …

age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … parenthood is as strongly linked to reduced income as partner absence. Comparing how these different routes to single motherhood … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 …