effect of the coronavirus crisis on household income and retirement wealth, households’ expectations about the recovery, and … the impact of the shock on individuals’ economic choices. Wealth shocks are large across the population, but more … pronounced for middle-age households and those higher in the wealth and income distributions. This contrasts with income shocks …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … than earnings inequality. Regarding income dynamics, entrepreneurs’ income changes are more dispersed, less skewed, less …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the …

attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human …

for income comparisons eliminates the gap between equivalence scale parameters for adults and children found in other …We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …

diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …

household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that … significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come households and women as second earners. We base the critique both on a theoretical … model of the family household and a detailed analysis of Australian income and employment data. …

the COVID-19 shock translates into a noticeable reduction in gross labor income across the entire income distribution … take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify …. However, the tax benefit system and discretionary policy responses to the crisis act as important income stabilizers, since …