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This paper empirically assesses the theory of interpersonal income comparison using a unique data set on suicide deaths in the United States. We treat suicide as a choice variable, conditional on exogenous risk factors, reflecting one's assessment of current and expected future utility. Using...
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Speech to the Center for the Study of Democracy 2006-2007 Economics of Governance Lecture, University of California, Irvine, November 6, 2006>
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The trend toward increasing inequality in family income in the United States since the late 1960s is well documented … changes in family income inequality and poverty during the years 1969-1998, focusing on labor supply and family structure as … period of rising inequality that has been the focus of previous work. Our results indicate that rising dispersion of male …
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older workers, general wage inequality tempered the rate of wage convergence between blacks and whites during the 1990s. …
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This paper empirically assesses the theory of interpersonal income comparison using individual level data on suicide deaths in the United States. We model suicide as a choice variable, conditional on exogenous risk factors, reflecting an individual's assessment of current and expected future...
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