differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …

paper seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of income inequality on democracy, focusing particularly on the … democracy. Combining democracy indicators from the V-Dem Project with inequality data from the World Income Inequality Dataset …

income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources. However, there are difficulties in using … tax data across time, as both policy and reporting changes influence the administrative statistics of income. This paper … uses two sets of adjustments to generate a consistent personal income series for the 2011-2018 period: upward adjustments …

We reconcile, both theoretically and empirically, changes in inequality with panel income changes over periods of …

This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …

household surveys by combining information on income shares from household surveys and top income shares from tax data. The … methodology relies on a flexible parametric functional form that models the income distribution for each country-year point under … and 42 per cent, depending on the period of analysis, and the assumed level of truncation of the income distribution. …

This paper evaluates the impacts of combining household surveys with income tax return files, in terms of growth …, inequality, and social welfare in Brazil from 2007 to 2015. This exercise holds the promise of adding more realistic top income … income inequality, we assess their cumulative welfare implications. First, as the level of inequality rises when higher top …