height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level … suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to per capita income and that the distribution of income is an important … determinant of average height. Empirical analysis rests on 56 height studies and per capita income estimates for 20 developed or …

the lens of the quantified model, the change in the income distribution between 1990 and 2014 led to neighborhood change … households, above and beyond rising nominal income inequality.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …

In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The … analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income … four cases. If anything, trade seems to have caused income divergence …

The recent literature on cross-country convergence of per capita income has largely ignored international trade. The … capita income convergence and international trade. First, I briefly summarize a few interesting recent papers which have … linked income convergence to trade. Their common inference is that for countries which are both somehow linked by trade and …

, we see inequality in housing consumption equivalents mirroring patterns in income across both space and time, according … to an income elasticity of housing demand just below one. These patterns occur mainly within cities, and are not …

The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population … flows to high-income places. These changes coincide with a disproportionate increase in housing prices in high-income places …, a divergence in the skill-specific returns to moving to high-income places, and a redirection of low-skill migration …

individuals with incomes in the upper levels of the national income distribution are less supportive of national redistribution … richer in the global income distribution will be less supportive of global redistribution. We test this hypothesis using a … about their positions in the national and global income distributions, and we provide novel evidence that those …

This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate economic activity. I construct a … each tax change by income group and state. Variation in the income distribution across U.S. states and federal tax changes … relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups, and that the effect of …