olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain … income gradients among 55-64 years old in both countries and a significant part among Americans 70-80 years old. The most …

The authors test the hypothesis that individual effort on the job depends both on one's own income and on the … individual's position in the relevant income distribution. Combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with multi …-country ISSP survey data, they analyze the extent to which relative income affects an individual's effort, finding that an …

This paper estimates the impact of income on the long-term care utilization of elderly Americans using a natural … positive permanent income shock lowers nursing home use but increases the utilization of paid home care services. We find some … estimates suggests that moderate reductions in post-retirement income would significantly alter long-term utilization patterns …

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory …, and difficulty in identifying which of several mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the two. To …

We show how technical change, measured as a shift in the GDP function, is combined with net income to track welfare … terms of net product functions: although the relevant income measure is net of depreciation, productivity is measured based … on gross output. We show that net product, net income, net expenditure and productivity change are complements, not …

relationship between financial development and income. We find mixed results on both the short and the long-run relationships … between the two variables. We find finance causing income, income causing finance, and bi-directional causality. The results …

A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and …' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … with the ‘relative income' hypothesis) and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods that may be assumed to be places where …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …