-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

-post employment outcomes. Finally, believing that one earns more than peers causally leads to large positive effects on happiness …

national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience-increasing feature of social trust reduces well-being inequality by … damaging to those living in trustworthy environments. These results suggest a fresh set of links between trust and inequality …

A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income … investigate their impact on levels and trends in measured inequality. We show that ignoring the value of health insurance coverage … inequality and its upward trend. As an application of our fuller measure of income, we consider how two provisions of current …

What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and … inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … the degree of inequality across metropolitan areas? Twenty years ago, metropolitan inequality was strongly associated with …

This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro …-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after the downturn, but government safety net programs … buttressed disposable income for those with low income, and despite the rise in inequality, Sweden remained one of the most …

of purpose, control over one's life, family happiness, and social status--that help explain choice controlling for …

countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct …, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought--which places self-interest as the guiding principle …