the data, credit scores grow and fan out with age; at the same time, income and consumption inequality also increase with …, income, and consumption over an individual's lifetime which can replicate these empirical facts. We use the model to …

Economists have long been aware of utility externalities such as a tendency to compare own income with others'. If … welfare losses from income comparisons are significant, any governmental interventions that alter such attitudes may have … comparing income with others may diminish welfare even when income levels increase makes UK respondents compare incomes more …

earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite transitory, whereas … negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these rich sets of …

income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income … child reaches the top quintile of the national income distribution starting from a family in the bottom quintile is 4.4% in …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …