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-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 …
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relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the … years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and … suggest that even though inequality and risk aversion are related, they are not the same thing. The paper shows that the …
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U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We … conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the ZIP-code, MSA, and state levels) of the inequality-SWB relationship using …
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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. The findings suggest that inequality between the 90 …
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the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …
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We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these … implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity …. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity. …
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relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the … years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and … suggest that even though inequality and risk aversion are related, they are not the same thing. The paper shows that the …
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The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
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Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents' attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide...
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