-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality …

arbitrary deÖnition such as income quartiles or the poverty line. Recently, Foster and Wolfson developed a methodology which … by an increasing income inequality, we Önd that the middle class declined and income polarization increased. In the …

inequality. The article explores the factors that contributed to these trends and discusses the relevance of our findings for …

inequality in the U.S. without generating much benefit in terms of lower crime rates. …

inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional …

poverty line. Foster and Wolfson have recently developed a methodology without arbitrariness. We apply this tool and a … during the 1994-2004 and 2004-2010 periods. During the first period, characterized by increasing income inequality, the …