We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

per-capita income. Economic conditions also affect conflict dynamics, as higher per-capita income reduces the persistence …

Income and home ownership both surged in the United States between 1940 and 1960. We use cross-place variation in … changes in real income to assess the importance of income gains to the mid-century home ownership boom. OLS and IV estimates …

on income is defined as the difference between the nominal and real growth in income. This term is always negative (as … inequality, and the racial wealth gap. The results show that inflation boosted the real income of the middle wealth quintile by a … income. Inflation also boosted mean and especially median real wealth growth, reduced wealth inequality, and lowered the …

with similar tenants. We link the tenants to their tax records to obtain information on demographics, income, mobility … negative income shocks, evidencing a collateral effect …

We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all …, inequality, and per capita income. Equilibria with higher levels of output also have lower inequality, higher mobility, and more …

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 on data from the Treasury's Individual Income Tax Model for the period …