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rents for amenities that they do not value as much. We quantify the corresponding impact on well-being inequality. Through … households, above and beyond rising nominal income inequality.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …
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labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …
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We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey …
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This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed protection), an integrated city emerges. Unequal...
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The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so “rise in the social insurance state” is a far better description of the century than...
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Inequality in U.S. housing prices and rents both declined in the mid-20th century, even as home-ownership rates rose …. Subsequently, housing-price inequality has risen to pre-War levels, while rent inequality has risen less. Combining both measures …, we see inequality in housing consumption equivalents mirroring patterns in income across both space and time, according …
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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...
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Some of today's most heated policy debates about Brexit, trade wars, climate change abatement, and migration involve redistribution of resources within a given country (national redistribution) and between countries (global redistribution). Nevertheless, theories and evidence on preferences for...
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This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate economic activity. I construct a measure of who received (or paid for) tax changes in the postwar period using tax return data from NBER's TAXSIM. I aggregate each tax change by income group and state. Variation...
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As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average 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...
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