definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class … fact that self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal capabilities …

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education …

unique, stable Nash equilibrium in which the supply of public goods critically depends on the distribution of income and the … observability parameter. Interestingly, an increase (decrease) in the observability for income losers (gainers), for a given income … redistribution, leads to an increase in the supply of public goods. In the absence of such income redistribution, the increase in the …