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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 …
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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 "rise...
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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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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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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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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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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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We study the distribution of labor income during large devaluations. Across countries, inequality falls after large … understand inequality dynamics, we use a novel administrative dataset covering the 2002 Argentinean devaluation. We show that …
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range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …
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was strong co-movement between polarization and inequality. Larger urban-rural gaps in mean incomes are strongly …
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