-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 …

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well- being). We estimate … results suggest that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent well …

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). We estimate sibling … that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent wellbeing. The influence is …

, 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 …

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 …

also seems to be a key driver of income/resource inequality. In this essay, I review the evidence for the joint relation … between energy, hierarchy and inequality. I then speculate about what it implies for achieving a sustainable and equitable …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …