widely reported gender happiness inequality puzzle can be explained. …A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only …

This paper begins by proposing two cardinal measures of inequality in life chances. Using as its database a matrix in … literature on the equality of opportunity, the paper then defines the concept of an inequality in circumstances curve and relates … immobility and of inequality in circumstances on the basis of the occupation of fathers or mothers and the income class to which …

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

-economic inequality and not on the outcome of this process. …

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality … countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

worse off than whites, and singles are worse off than married couples. We also find that the degree of inequality in the … LIMEW is substantially higher among the elderly than among the nonelderly. In contrast, inequality in the most comprehensive … behind the degree of inequality, as the decomposition analysis reveals, is the greater size and concentration of income from …