-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality … corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US … make several European countries look preferable. The paper also sheds light on the risk corrected average income on a …

rates across the income distribution accounting for different tax bases as well as the role of transfers. The uniquely long … to proportional, bearing a redistributive effect of only a few percent. Intragenerational income mobility seems to be … events. Labor income taxes contribute less to progressivity in recent years, whereas transfers to unemployed and old …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … affect per capita incomes, which has repercussions for the income distribution even if wages remain constant. The aim of this …

This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and … export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution … countries’ first and second moment of the income distribution are important determinants of export prices. Controlling for …