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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
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main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on within …-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who aspire to match … social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. …
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This paper estimates a nonlinear Threshold-VAR to investigate if a Keynesian liquidity trap due to a speculative motive was in place in the U.S. Great Depression and the recent Great Recession. We find clear evidence in favor of a breakdown of the liquidity effect after an unexpected increase in...
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The Great Depression is infamous for banking panics, which were a symptomatic of a phenomenon that scholars have labeled a contagion of fear. Using geocoded, microdata on bank distress, we develop metrics that illuminate the incidence of these events and how banks that remained in operation...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …
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generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
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Ýmrohoroðlu, Ýmrohoroðlu and Joines [1995, A life-cycle analysis of Social Security, Economic Theory, vol. 6, 83-114] show that the optimal replacement ratio of the payas-you-go public pension system in the US economy amounts to 30%. We extend their analysis to a model that 1) replicates the...
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-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in government spending increases income inequality and decreases wealth … inequality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that the financing of additional expenditures by debt rather than taxes …
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The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both...
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