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Income inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, writes about income inequality in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 8/13/2021
COVID-19 and Income Inequality: Evidence from Monthly Population Registers
We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is…
Working Paper
Publish date 7/2/2021
Entrepreneurial Accessibility, Eudaimonic Well-Being, and Inequality
Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals’ relative well-being. We…
Working Paper
Publish date 10/13/2021
Long-Run Trends in Top Income Shares: The Role of Income and Population Growth
This paper studies the sensitivity of long-run trends in top income shares to differences in top-share measures. While the standard measure fixes a share of the population, we define alternatives that…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/27/2022
Civic Honesty and Cultures of Trust
Recent work in Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty and cooperative behaviour captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. Similarly, beliefs about social trust…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
IFN Researcher
Graduate Student
IFN Researcher
IFN Researcher
The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being
We study the economic and psychological effects of a USD 1076 PPP unconditional cash transfer, a five-week psychotherapy program, and the combination of both interventions among 5,756 individuals in r…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/7/2021
Fairness, Flexibility and the Far Right: Understanding the Relationship between Populism, Social Spending and Labor Markets
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear an…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
A Time to Plot, a Time to Reap: Coups, Regime Changes and Inequality
A vast economic literature examines the welfare gains and distributional consequences of economic reforms, while much less is generally known on the relationship of inequality and forced regime change…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
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