tax records. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is then used to compare income inequality, total …Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might … employees (e.g. employees affiliated with social security) in survey data from Ecuador based on information from administrative …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …