Objective This article examines how unemployment affects the separation risk of heterosexual coresiding couples, depending on couples' household income and whether men or women become unemployed. Background Unemployment may decrease as a drop in resources makes more costly—or it increase if creates stress reduces quality couple relations. Moreover, be detrimental for couples rather than women, ...

Many studies have argued that relative income predicts individual well-being. More recently, it has been suggested that the relative rank of an individual’s income, rather than how that income compares to a mean or reference income, is important. Here the relative rank hypothesis is examined along with the additional hypothesis that individuals compare their incomes predominantly with those of ...

Previous research into the relationship between income inequality and turnout has produced mixed results, as consensus is lacking whether reduces for all groups, low-income earners, or no one. Therefore, this paper builds on literature by introducing supply-side logic, through first individual-level test of impact that (moderated policy manifesto positions) turnout. It does so multilevel logist...

the neo- classical school on the situation of the individual and claims that individuals (consumers and producers) meet each in the market. on the supply side, there exists possibility of substitution between factors of production and, on the demand side, substitution by consumers between final goods. in the neo- classical production function capital and labor are taken as the determniants of t...

BACKGROUND With a high rate of recurrence, urolithiasis is a chronic disease that impacts quality of life. The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System is an NIH validated questionnaire to assess patient quality of life. We evaluated the impact of urolithiasis on quality of life using the NIH-sponsored PROMIS-43 questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients reporting to the ki...

How does income inequality and its structure affect credit? Based on various strands of the literature, we hypothesize that rising should lead to higher household credit at aggregate level, a substantial part this effect be driven by impoverishment middle class relative top-income households. These intuitions are empirically confirmed study based country-level dataset over period 1970–2017. To ...

The primary aim of this paper is to examine whether resources accruing to different members of the household and from different sources have differential impacts on household expenditure patterns. The issue is of considerable policy interest for, if the identity of the income recipient does matter in the household’s expenditure decisions, then it indicates the usefulness of targeting income ass...

When witnessing the administration of pain to an individual who behaved unfairly in an economic game, males show significantly less empathy-related neural activity than females and significantly more activity in areas associated with the processing of reward. This finding suggests that fairness concerns make males more likely to assume the role of punishing unfair behaviour and promoting cooper...

We study optimal redistributive policies in a frictional model of the labor market. Ex-ante heterogeneous agents choose how much to search in a labor market characterized by a matching technology. We first derive efficiency results and provide policies to decentralize the optimal allocation. We then solve the mechanism design problem of a government with redistributive motives and limited infor...