Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own … income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same is true but with lifesatisfaction as the dependant …

portion of the evolution of U.S. house prices during the past 20 years can be reproduced when expectations of future income … corresponding changes in house prices, since the value of housing must be linked to expected aggregate income. Only since about 2005 …

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 …