-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 …

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 …

This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro …-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after the downturn, but government safety net programs … buttressed disposable income for those with low income, and despite the rise in inequality, Sweden remained one of the most …

national distribution of happiness. Thus the resilience-increasing feature of social trust reduces well-being inequality by … damaging to those living in trustworthy environments. These results suggest a fresh set of links between trust and inequality …

Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence …

Covid recession on low- and high-income people. According to our model, two thirds of the inequality in Covid deaths reflect … pre-existing inequality in comorbidity rates and access to quality health care. The remaining third, stems from the fact … income inequality generated by the Covid epidemic reflects the nature of the goods that low-income people produce. Finally …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences … how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link between … educational inequality and social mobility. We interpret this evidence from the perspective of economic models of skill …

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …

This paper deals with the issue of using infant and childhood mortality as an indicator of inequality. The case is that … mortality rates and also a reduction in the absolute levels of differences across socioeconomic groups, relative inequality has …