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-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
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-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
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-deprived are and for tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how wellbeing is measured, the same …
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We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these … implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity …. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity …
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the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …
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and has a substantial influence on inequality of opportunity country orderings. Growth regressions also illustrate the …
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inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates …
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The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
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Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents' attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide...
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earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …
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