idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is … to agents income is early, then those who in fact married hedges (and for good reason) are the ones most likely to be … resolution of uncertainty to agents income is predominantly later, then those who in fact marry hedges will in fact be less …

their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding … by high-income earners, by issuing new financial instruments, and by conducting intergenerational risk sharing through …

This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A …

income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coefficient to make the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income … distributions can be viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its properties and apply it to the US-income …

utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …

large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as …