-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 …

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 …

, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion. -- Happiness ; inequality … 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 …

-deprived are and for tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how wellbeing is measured, the same …

-post employment outcomes. Finally, believing that one earns more than peers causally leads to large positive effects on happiness …

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

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

and has a substantial influence on inequality of opportunity country orderings. Growth regressions also illustrate the …

Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the … contributions, the upward bias may be significant and challenge the interpretation of inequality of opportunity estimates as lower … of inequality of opportunity measurement, we provide an empirical illustration based on income data from 31 European …

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …