Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2003
We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well being using a total of 123,668 answers to … inequality is high, even after controlling for individual income, a large set of personal characteristics, and year and country … (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies. The effect, however, appears to be stronger in Europe than in the US. In …