-shaped consumption age profiles. The main driver behind lifecycle consumption variations are lifecycle income changes, which display … similar flattening. Employing a lifecycle model we show changes in income are sufficient to match the movements in consumption …

proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …

perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … data. Among single males, about a third of the income-poor ones are "undeserving," because (based on the estimates) they …

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …

income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An …

High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income … growth rate is a non-linear function of the income growth if policy makers try to influence economic growth. As a result …

Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic … growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …