-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 …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

The rise in American inequality has been exaggerated both in magnitude and timing. Commentators lament the large gap … timing of the rise of inequality is often misunderstood. By some measures inequality stopped growing after 2000 and by others … inequality has not grown since 1993. This cessation of inequality's secular rise in 2000 is evident from the growth of Census …

strong intrinsic desire for progressive redistribution. Intuitively, taxing their effort at a lower rate stimulates their …