Using General Social Survey data from 1972 to 2008, we found that Americans were on average happier in the years with less national income inequality than in the years with more national income inequality. We further demonstrated that this inverse relation between income inequality and happiness was explained by perceived fairness and general trust. That is, Americans trusted other people less ...

in this research, we investigate the influence of profit management on the long-term performance of ipos in tehran stock exchange. the ipos in 1378 to 1384 are used as our sample and their long-term return in a three-year period after the ipo are calculated. we start calculating the return from the first day after the month in which the financial statement of ipo is published. discretionary cur...

In 1989 an estimated 33.9 million persons in the civilian noninstitu­ tionalized population of the United States (13.9 percent) were reported to lack health care coverage. This point-prevalence estimate represents an average for 52 weeks of household interviews conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). It is a measure of a person’s coverage stat...

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in market and transfer inc...

Intro: risk sharing Our paper introduces three innovations with respect to the standard literature. First, labor supply is explicitly recognized and modeled as an endogenous variable, that responds to exogenous shocks. Actually, one of the main topic of the paper is precisely to investigate how adverse income shocks trigger changes in labor supply at the household, and possibly at the risk shar...