What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and … inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … the degree of inequality across metropolitan areas? Twenty years ago, metropolitan inequality was strongly associated with …

longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move to these areas. While the historical data on happiness are … interpretation of these facts is that individuals do not aim to maximize self-reported well-being, or happiness, as measured in … surveys, and they willingly endure less happiness in exchange for higher incomes or lower housing costs. In this view …

This paper reviews five striking facts about inequality across countries. As Kuznets (1955) famously …ethnic heterogeneity reduces redistribution. Finally, there is much more inequality and less …first documented, inequality first rises and then falls with income. More unequal societies are much …

influence. We present a model of such institutional subversion focusing specifically on courts and of the effects of inequality …