relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

wages and income is negligible. …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … mid-20th century U.S. railroads. This is due to the fact that transportation has vastly different productivities in …

business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation …

state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare …