-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th … is introduced, the effect of 20th century climatic temperature on current income is either weakly positive or … insignificant. Our findings are robust to various sub-samples, additional geographic controls, and alternative income measures. The …

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …

of the fertility transition, technological progress increased inequality directly through land-biased technological … change and indirectly through increasing population growth. The fertility transition and the child quantity-quality trade … a panel of European countries over the period 1265–1850 using agricultural productivity as a measure of technology …

of today's income levels. We demonstrate that our results are not driven by persistence in geography or institutions. The …

income per capita, into a Post-Malthusian regime, where technological progress rises and population growth absorbs only part … of output growth. Ultimately, a demographic transition reverses the positive relationship between income and population … growth, and the economy enters a Modern Growth regime with reduced population growth and sustained growth of income …

The hypothesis that economic freedom and related variables are significant determinants of real per capita income and … growth is critically evaluated. Economic freedom is found necessary for higher levels of per capita income and growth largely … higher levels of per capita income. And securing particular levels of economic freedom does not guarantee higher levels of …

effects of diversity on productivity. While the intermediate level of genetic diversity prevalent among Asian and European …