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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …

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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey

Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

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;...

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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....

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Community and Class Antagonism

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...

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Tax And Education Policy In A Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels Of Redistribution Maximize Growth And Efficiency?

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …

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Redistributive Policy in a Transition Economy: The Case of Hungary

Jarvis, Sarah; Pudney, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This study examines the scope for redistributive government policies based on progressive income taxation and direct income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of the household sector and changes in the Hungarian...

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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … European happiness because of their lower social mobility (since no preference for equality exists amongst the rich or the …

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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Norton, Michael I; Saez, Emmanuel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using … problem. By contrast, we find quantitatively small effects of the treatment on views about policy and redistribution: support …

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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data on neighbourhood characteristics, I explore the factors that affect trust at a local level (‘localised trust’) and at a national level (‘generalised trust’). Trust is positively associated with the respondent’s...

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