-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … inequality, over the last three decades. While the trend in the skill premium differed widely across countries, the experience … premium rose and the gender premium fell virtually everywhere. At a higher frequency, earnings inequality appears to be …

easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard linearization techniques and is designed to work in cases when inequality … factor-specific productivity shocks shape dynamics of income and consumption inequality …

believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, and that it's the Iberian colonists' fault. Thus … that this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. The recent leveling of inequality in the region since the 1990s seems to have done little …