-term outcomes such as education, teenage pregnancy, occupation, mortality, and victimization …

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …

We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We …

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 … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …

social welfare accounts for intragenerational equity, the larger the intragenerational inequality aversion (IIA), the smaller …

inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … extreme wealth inequality in society …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …