This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The … and population and the availability of micro data starting in 1967, an upper and lower bound for the pre-tax income Gini …

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … translated into poverty convergence. In a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction since 1990, the … analysis finds evidence of both income and poverty convergence among municipalities. As a cause of these, the results point to …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region … of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income … changes to their lives, and overall they are less supportive of these measures. These patterns are less clear across income …Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities …

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 …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … political instability, while other potential mechanisms, such as education, investment and inequality, lack comparable empirical … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …

representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between … we use alternative measures of economic status, such as wealth and neighborhood advantage. We find that area-level income …