relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on … than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita. -- poverty ; middle class ; income ; institutions …

of the bride price payment. Specifically, we demonstrate that droughts - a proxy for income shocks in this setting …

This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very …

complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … personal factors reduces the estimate of income immobility by around 30 percent. There are also large variations in country …-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the …

right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution. Higher top incomes and top wealth in equal division areas coincide …