This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution … the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the extreme top (top 0.1 percent) income transmission is remarkable with … fathers' income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over … seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income … display a marked "Anglo-Saxon" pattern, with sharply increased top income shares. Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, however …

education for the distribution of earnings, they are much more robust for the distribution of household income per capita. Over …