We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control - a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature - is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …

We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived …

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …