. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also … in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics …

with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

. Income effects change from positive to neutral in subsequent periods. …

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

's effects on city-level measures of income, property values, employment and poverty rates, and population. The estimated effects … on income, property values, and population are positive and economically significant. They are not driven by changes in …

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 …

Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the Survey of Consumer … earnings, to disposable income, and, ultimately, to consumption and wealth. We document a continuous and sizable increase in … before 1982, but mitigate its increase thereafter. Taxes and transfers compress the level of income inequality, especially at …