that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of … poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

income inequality in Germany does not seem to find strong support in the data. In particular, we find that current low levels …

shortfall from the national median income, and the poverty line, the higher the vote share of radical right-wing and left … for radical parties at both ends of the political spectrum. The higher a county's rate of relative poverty, the average …

This paper examines how income inequality can affect the polarization of heterogeneous party platforms on climate …-averse investors in "green" technologies. Households are heterogeneous with respect to income and preferences for environmentalism and … distributional implications) and an income tax is combined with a model of a carbonintensive economy. For a higher inequality of pre …

This paper investigates the effects of health on wages by controlling for a number of problems: first, the unobservable … genetic endowment may cause an omitted variable bias; second, using a self-reported health variable could induce measurement … the above issues in one framework. The results show that good health raises wages for both women and men. I find the …