Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth … significantly higher values than income volatility, the effect being mostly driven by changes in the market value of real estate …

Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the Survey of Consumer … earnings, to disposable income, and, ultimately, to consumption and wealth. We document a continuous and sizable increase in … before 1982, but mitigate its increase thereafter. Taxes and transfers compress the level of income inequality, especially at …

-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back … to 1850 by changing income. We find that our proposed mechanism can account for 37 percent of the decline in the number …

places within countries needs to consider population, income and housing prices simultaneously. Housing supply elasticity …, national income accounts, public economics and housing prices …

We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … political ideology and income have increased over the last four decades. Whites and non-whites have converged somewhat on …