-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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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. …

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 …

Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong … increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at … the core of this evolution. Since 1995, lower-tail inequality decreased, while upper-tail inequality increased at a slower …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …