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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2008

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility

Kremer, Michael - 2000

access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the fertility …

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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development : A Human Capital Perspective

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2004

dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of economic … development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via … inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …

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Love and Money : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Fernandez, Raquel - 2001

initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, and fertility differentials are positively correlated …

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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...

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Inequality and income : the mediating effects of social spending and risk

Castronova, Edward - In: The economics of transition 9 (2001) 2, pp. 395-415

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The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2000

This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies...

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Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether...

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Individual Earnings and Family Income : Dynamics and Distribution

Altonji, Joseph G.; Hynsjö, Disa M.; Vidangos, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural models of saving. We present a version of the linear...

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Trade Policy, Income, and Employment

Baldwin, Robert E. - 1984

Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and important institutional changes in the international trading environment have caused policy officials in the advanced industrial nations to reconsider the proper mix of reactive...

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