their income, finding, for instance, an effective tax rate of only 38.1% for the 0.001% fractile of German income taxpayers … in 2001. This result contrasts sharply with the legislated top marginal income tax rate of 48.5%. We subject the results … important distributional result, the CNTR increases with increasing taxable income. …

. 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 …

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 …

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

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 …