focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the … inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of … no causality from wealth to husband's or wife's health, the tests in the dynamic panel data model do not provide evidence …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. The findings suggest that inequality between the 90 …